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"As it stands today, the number of Canadians living with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia will double within a generation," Ray Congdon of the Alzheimer Society said in a statement.
"This new data only reinforces the fact that Alzheimer's disease and related dementias are a rising concern in this country, an epidemic that has the potential to overwhelm the Canadian health care system."
In the meantime, businesses and industry sectors "are also being affected as our boomer generation, a generation of leaders and mentors, are affected by dementia," said the Canadian society's chief executive Scott Dudgeon.
More than 70,000 Canadians diagnosed with Alzheimer's are under age 65, and around 50,000 of them are under age 60, the society said.
Alzheimer's disease is a brain disorder that manifests itself as premature senility.
Studies have shown it to be associated with plaques in the brain and according to the Alzheimer's Society, one in 11 Canadians over age 65 suffer from it.
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Image of an Alzheimers patient at a psychiatric hospital, by Jean-Philippe Ksiazek.
"This new data only reinforces the fact that Alzheimer's disease and related dementias are a rising concern in this country, an epidemic that has the potential to overwhelm the Canadian health care system."
In the meantime, businesses and industry sectors "are also being affected as our boomer generation, a generation of leaders and mentors, are affected by dementia," said the Canadian society's chief executive Scott Dudgeon.
More than 70,000 Canadians diagnosed with Alzheimer's are under age 65, and around 50,000 of them are under age 60, the society said.
Alzheimer's disease is a brain disorder that manifests itself as premature senility.
Studies have shown it to be associated with plaques in the brain and according to the Alzheimer's Society, one in 11 Canadians over age 65 suffer from it.
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Image of an Alzheimers patient at a psychiatric hospital, by Jean-Philippe Ksiazek.
