Alzheimer’s by the numbers • More than 6.7 million people in the U.S. are living with Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia in 2023 – 55 million people around the world. • About 1 in 9 people, or 11.3 percent, in the U.S. age 65 and older has Alzheimer’s dementia. • More than 10,000 Wyomingites are living with dementia. • Approximately two-thirds of those living with Alzheimer’s are women. • Black Americans are twice as likely as whites to develop Alzheimer’s while Latinx folks are 50 percent more likely than whites.
This item is available in full to subscribers.
To continue reading, you will need to either log in to your subscriber account, below, or purchase a new subscription.
Please log in to continue |