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Alzheimer's Association

This year, the first baby boomers turn 65 —
when the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease
significantly increases. While Alzheimer’s is not
normal aging, age is the greatest risk factor for
the disease.

This means baby boomers are its next target.
With the first wave of baby boomers reaching age
65, there is an impending wave of new cases and
new families that will have to face the devastating,
deteriorating, debilitating and heartbreaking
disease known as Alzheimer’s — a progressive
and fatal brain disorder that causes problems with
memory, thinking and behavior.

Eventually, Alzheimer’s kills, but not before it takes
everything away from you. It steals a person’s
memories, judgment and independence. It robs
spouses of lifetime companions and children of
parents and grandparents. It destroys the security
of families and depletes millions of dollars annually
from family and government budgets.

It is expected an estimated 10 million baby boomers
will develop Alzheimer’s. Of those who reach
the age of 85, nearly one in two will get it. And
because there is no way to prevent, cure or even
slow the progression of the disease, every one of
these 10 million baby boomers will either die with
Alzheimer’s or from it.

And it’s not just the person with Alzheimer’s
who suffers — it’s also the caregivers. Caring
for someone with Alzheimer’s disease negatively
affects the caregiver’s health, employment, income
and financial security. But that is nothing compared
to the human cost — the toll it takes watching a
loved one slowly disappear.

Unless we find a treatment or a cure, Alzheimer’s
will become the defining disease of the Baby Boom
Generation. They will be Generation Alzheimer’s.
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