About 74,000 Oklahomans have Alzheimer’s disease, and the number is growing rapidly, says a report by the Alzheimer’s Association.

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Alzheimer’s report sees worsening (Tulsa World)

HARRISONBURG - The number of Alzheimer’s patients in Virginia has increased 30 percent in the past 10 years, according to a study released Tuesday by the Alzheimer’s Association.

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Alzheimer’s Population Exploding (The Harrisonburg Daily News-Record)

Greenville, N.C. - Anyone who’s ever known someone with Alzheimer’s disease has seen what it does to the mind.

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Alzheimer’s disease takes a hard toll on families (WNCT Greenville)

Families and caregivers are invited to the 11th Annual Alzheimer’s Education Conference from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. The event will be held at the Gordon Club in Building 18402, 19th St., Fort Gordon.

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Alzheimer’s conference set Saturday at Ft. Gordon (The Augusta Chronicle)

Summer will begin at 6 p.m. on March 19 when the Alzheimer Association holds its fourth annual “Summer Somewhere” fundraiser.

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Alzheimer’s Association event to be held March 19 (Ypsilanti Courier)

It’s disturbing. It’s the way some health professionals have described a new report on Alzheimer’s disease and its upward trend. Our Neil St. Clair helps break down the numbers here in New York.

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Alzheimer’s Association says disease spreading in CNY (News 10 Now Syracuse)

Title: Alzheimer’s ‘Epidemic’ Hitting Minorities Hardest Category: Health News Created: 3/9/2010 10:10:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 3/10/2010

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Alzheimer’s ‘Epidemic’ Hitting Minorities Hardest (MedicineNet.com)

The Alzheimer’s Association is reporting an increasing number of cases of the debilitating disease in Oklahoma.

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Alzheimer’s Disease Rising In Okla. (KOCO 5 Oklahoma City)

Last month the satirical newspaper The Onion published a story that was headlined, “Alzheimer’s Disease Causing Baby Boomers To Misremember 1960s Even More.”

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Silver Tsunami: The Alzheimer’s Conundrum (Financial Planning.com)

JACKSONVILLE (AP) - Authorities are investigating whether an 80-year-old man shot and killed his wife at an Alzheimer’s care center in North Carolina before turning the gun on himself.

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Lawmen investigating Alzheimer’s patient’s shooting death (The Fayetteville Observer)

The Alzheimer’s Association will hold a free class titles “Making the Move to Residential Care: Choices, Challenges and Considerations” from 10:30 a.m. to noon, Thursday, March 18, at the Monterey Public Library, 625 Pacific St., Monterey. The deadline for registration is March 16.

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Alzheimer’s Association to hold free class (The Monterey County Herald)

Associated Press - March 10, 2010 10:05 AM ET OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The Alzheimer’s Association is reporting an increasing number of cases of the debilitating disease in Oklahoma.

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Report: Alzheimer’s disease rising in Oklahoma (News On 6 Tulsa)

According to the Alzheimer’s Association’s® 2010 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures, African-Americans are about two times more likely and Hispanics are about one and one-half times more likely than their white counterparts to have Alzheimer’s and other dementias.

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African-Americans and Hispanics are at higher risk for developing Alzheimer’s and dementias (News-Medical-Net)

Throughout the month of March, visitors to Rockefeller Center in the heart of midtown Manhattan will get an unexpected lesson on Alzheimer’s disease.

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Visitors to Rockefeller Center to get unexpected lesson on Alzheimer’s disease throughout March (News-Medical-Net)

As deaths from heart disease and many types of cancers have dipped, living longer is putting more people at risk for Alzheimer’s disease. Now a new report shows African Americans and Hispanics are particularly vulnerable to the brain-wasting disease.African Americans are almost twice as likely as whites to have Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, and Hispanics are about one and a half times …

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Alzheimer’s more likely to hit blacks, Hispanics (Chicago Sun-Times)

About 74,000 Oklahomans have Alzheimer’s disease, but the number is rapidly growing, according to a report by the Alzheimer’s Association.More than 96,000 Oklahomans are expected to have Alzheimer’s by 2025, largely because of the aging of the baby boomer population.”The disease is growing, unfortunately, and we only expect that to get worse,” said Keili McEwen, Alzheimer’s Association regional …

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Alzheimer’s is on rise in Oklahoma, group says (The Oklahoman)

At a time when heart disease, breast cancer and prostate cancer deaths are all going down, a new study out today says Alzheimer’s cases are on the rise - and the coming epidemic is hitting minorities the hardest.

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Alzheimer’s cases on the rise among minorities (KING5 Seattle)

According to the Alzheimer’s Association’s 2010 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures just released today, there are 5.3 million Americans living with Alzheimer’s disease.

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Arkansans Hard Hit by Alzheimer’s Disease (KARK Little Rock)

Your chances of developing Alzheimer’s disease could be higher than you think.

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Race May Determine Risk For Alzheimer’s Disease (CBS 13 Baltimore)

According to a new report, more than 45,000 people in Central New York have Alzheimer’s disease. The new report shows that in the last decade, the numbers of people living…

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Report: 20-40% increase in Alzheimer’s disease in CNY (WSYR 9 Syracuse)