Treating Dementia and Agitation

• Gary W. Small ^[1]
  1. [1] Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles
• Localización: JAMA: the journal of the American Medical Association, ISSN 0098-7484, Vol. 311, Nº. 7, 2014, págs. 677-678
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Age is the greatest single risk factor for developing dementia. When people reach age 65, their risk of dementia is 10%, and by age 85, approximately one-third will develop Alzheimer disease, the most common cause of dementia.1 With 76 million US baby boomers entering or having entered this period of risk, a new wave of dementia cases can be anticipated—instead of today’s approximate 5 million people with dementia, nearly 14 million in the United States are expected to have dementia by 2050.2