Alzheimer’s Numbers Likely to Soar
March 17, 2020
The number of people living with Alzheimer’s disease in the United States may nearly triple by 2050, barring medical breakthroughs, the Alzheimer’s Association concludes in its latest annual report. In this regard, challenges abound. In Issues, a policy analyst pointed out that research has yielded modest gains primarily in patient care, not biomedical advance, and the head of a philanthropy that supports brain and cognitive studies said it was time to “open the imagination of scientists and funders” to look at “the complexity of the aging brain in its biosocial context.”