It is Tuesday, October 29, 2019 and my mind and body are all over the place. Before I get into what I have been up to, I want to share a statistic put out by the Associated Press. More than five million people in the United States have Alzheimer's Disease. We have just over 329 million people in the USA. So five million is a lot, but it is less than two percent of the population. Now that figure doesn't tell us how many have dementia . Remember that dementia is the set of symptoms. You can think of dementia as the umbrella of symptoms. Under those symptoms are many reasons, diagnoses, or folders . Debbie Selsalvage says the folder under the umbrella with the most papers in it (people or cases) is Alzheimer's Disease. There are many, many causes of dementia symptoms. Some of them are curable. That is why it is good to get to the doctor if you or a loved one is showing symptoms. Sometimes it is just a vitamin deficiency, a tumor, or a medication si
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