What do you know about Alzheimer's Disease?
The 2009 report from the Alzheimer's Association says that as many as 5.3 million people in the United States are living with Alzheimer's.... that someone develops Alzheimer's every 70 seconds, and that the costs of Alzheimer's and other dementias to Medicare, Medicaid and businesses amount to more than $148 billion each year.
In this week's Health Break, talking about a way to help those who suffer from that disease.... but in a non-traditional way.
At least non-traditional to some aspects of the medical society.
The author of the article is the Plain Dealer's Brie Zeltner, who started the segment by telling ideastream®'s Rick Jackson the story of a 59 year old man in Berea... who didn't want to lose his mother.
