Quality care in challenging times.

AHIP Coverage Pub Date : 2008-03-01
Jay Greene
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Every 72 seconds, someone in the United States develops Alzheimer's disease, an incurable affliction that kills at least 66,000 people annually, making it the nation's seventh leading cause of death. Alzheimer's is the most common form of dementia, accounting for 60 percent of cases (5.1 million people), according to the Alzheimer's Association, Chicago. Dementia describes a group of symptoms--loss of memory, judgment, language, and other intellectual skills--caused by damage to neurons, the brain's nerve cells.

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挑战时代的优质关怀。
在美国,每72秒就有一个人患上阿尔茨海默病,这是一种无法治愈的疾病,每年至少导致6.6万人死亡,使其成为美国第七大死因。根据芝加哥阿尔茨海默氏症协会的数据,阿尔茨海默氏症是最常见的痴呆症,占病例的60%(510万人)。痴呆症描述了一组症状——记忆力、判断力、语言和其他智力技能的丧失——由神经元(大脑的神经细胞)受损引起。
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