I work with old people, crippled people, retarded people. Half the people in nursing homes have Alzheimer's. A lot of people with Alzheimer's are still are home, fortunately.
Forty years ago there were half-a-million people with Alzheimer's. Today there are five million, and it's growing every day. We're living longer, but it cannot explain this.
The cost of caring for these people is astronomical.
These people can live anywhere from two twenty years with this diseaase.
In stage three, they become incontinent, and can't even feed themselves. Afer a while workers can't even feed them, they are asleep all the time, and end up with a feeding tube. Then they're put on hospice, which they have six months or less to live.
The cost of caring for these people is already running into tens of billions a year. Soon it's going to be hundreds of billions.
This is a hidden time bomb and hardly anyone knows about it.
Researchers have been so far able to slow it down, but have not yet discovered a cure.