More and more people are getting Alzheimer’s disease. What exactly is Alzheimer’s and how many people come into contact with it?
Dementia
Alzheimer’s is the most common form of dementia, the collective name for more than 50 brain diseases and disorders. There are currently about 260,000 people with dementia living in the Netherlands. One in five will develop some form of dementia. Well-known forms are Alzheimer’s, vascular dementia, frontotemporal dementia and Lewy body dementia.
182,000
70% of people with dementia have Alzheimer’s disease. That equates to about 182,000 people. On average, someone in the Netherlands is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s every 15 minutes.
Age
What are the figures of people with dementia per age category? An overview:
– 4.6% of people under 65
– more than 10% of people over 65
– more than 20% of people over 80
– more than 40% of people over 90
insane
Health net previously published an article including video, in which the damage to the brain of an Alzheimer patient in picture is being brought. No cure has yet been found. Researchers did make a discovery about a certain drug, which could potentially ‘slow down’ Alzheimer’s disease.
9% of those who died in 2014 died as a result of #dementia http://t.co/jQ9c2PDSC3 pic.twitter.com/lwurJHUU7B
— CBS (@statisticscbs) September 18, 2015
The cabinet is also paying attention to dementia in general via a video.
How do I recognize Alzheimer’s and what is the course of the disease?
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