Interesting Facts
- Every 68 seconds somebody is diagnosed with Alzheimer's, by 2050 every 33 seconds somebody will be diagnosed with Alzheimer's
- More women have Alzheimer's than men
- In 2013 the direct costs of Alzheimer's disease care to American Society was approximately 203 billion dollars.
- The more education you receive in old age will decrease your risk of getting Alzheimer's
- A German doctor named Alois Alzheimer first observed Alzheimer's in 1906 when a patient had it and died from it, he looked at some parts of the brain and noted they had shrunken. A psychiatrist of his named the disease in 1910.
- Alzheimer's patients may start to lose their sense of smell