LIVING,MOVING MEMORIES-Breathing 4 Life's Memory: Voices

LIVING,MOVING MEMORIES-Breathing 4 Life's Memory: Voices

Voices

Year In Review 2009

Today there are an estimated 5 million Americans living with Alzheimer's, and someone new faces the disease every 71 seconds. By mid-century, someone will develop the disease every 33 seconds -- unless we act now!

Alzheimer's disease is an escalating epidemic due to our aging population. In fact, 10 million baby boomers will develop Alzheimer's disease in their lifetime. But your support as Alzheimer Champions allows us to move closer to ensuring that more of us can grow older without fearing this devastating disease.

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FastStats

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Leading Causes of Death

(Data are for the U.S.)

Number of deaths for leading causes of death

• Heart disease: 616,067
• Cancer: 562,875
• Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 135,952
• Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 127,924
• Accidents (unintentional injuries): 123,706
• Alzheimer's disease: 74,632
• Diabetes: 71,382
• Influenza and Pneumonia: 52,717
• Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 46,448
• Septicemia: 34,828

Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2007, table B

More data

• Deaths and mortality
• Deaths: Final Data for 2007
• Deaths: Leading Causes for 2006
• Deaths, percent of total deaths, and death rates for the 15 leading causes of death: United States and each State
• Deaths: Final Data for 2007

Contact Us:

• National Center for Health Statistics
  3311 Toledo Rd
  Hyattsville, MD 20782
• 1 (800) 232-4636
• cdcinfo@cdc.gov

A Woman's Nation Takes on Alzheimer'

Maria Shriver : A Woman's Nation Takes on Alzheimer's

A Woman's Nation Takes on Alzheimer's is an in-depth look at women and Alzheimer's with Maria Shriver and Ann O'Leary (Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress)....

Alzheimer’s is an epidemic. Every minute or so someone in this country will develop Alzheimer’s. Millions of people already have been formally diagnosed. Millions more are undiagnosed—or diagnosed with some form of dementia that could actually be Alzheimer’s. And with the 78 million baby boomers now moving into their later years, the cost of Alzheimer’s to American society is expected to be $20 trillion between now and the year 2050. That’s right—$20 trillion. There’s no doubt about it. We are in the midst of a national emergency, and we’re woefully unprepared.

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"I am pleased to say that Maria Shriver described herself as an Alzheimer's Activist in the video below. Nothing is going to change if we sit back. We all need to become activists in the effort to increase research funding and care funding for Alzheimer's disease."

This is important to families

that have been touched

by Alzheimer's disease.

Amplify’d from The alzheimers reading room

Alzheimer's Front Row|http://alzheimersfrontrow.blogspot.com/2010/10/maria-shriver-womans-nation-takes-on.html

By Bob DeMarco