Technology has played a big part in modern medical breakthroughs. In this video, Dr. Rudy Tanzi talks about how advances in technology may speed the discovery of an effective treatment for Alzheimer's.
We're seeing dramatic increases in Alzheimer's because people are living longer. Ok, take a statistic, 40% of people over 85 have Alzheimer's disease. The average lifespan in this country now is just about 80 years old, 78-98 are almost [xx] the women. Women get it more than men but that seems to be regardless of lifespan, so you have 71 million baby boomers, headed toward risk age, so we have a tsunami coming, an epidemic, unfortunately the federal government is slowly waking up to this.
They've been asleep, case in point, Alzheimer's costs 180 billion a year, as much as the Afghanistan and Iraq war combined, what do we throw at it? 500 million.
Some of the world's top experts in Alzheimer's disease research, prevention and treatment -- including Rudy Tanzi, PhD, and William Mobley, MD -- discuss the challenges the coming "Silver Tsunami" poses to the American healthcare system.
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