{"id":395,"date":"2005-12-30T14:37:11","date_gmt":"2005-12-30T18:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/?p=395"},"modified":"2011-06-21T14:45:08","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T18:45:08","slug":"dementia-cases-are-set-to-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/2005\/12\/30\/dementia-cases-are-set-to-soar\/","title":{"rendered":"Dementia cases &#8216;are set to soar&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>The number of cases of dementia world-wide is likely to double every 20 years, say researchers.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"203\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/41124000\/jpg\/_41124078_chinese203.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Elderly Chinese people\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"203\" height=\"152\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">An aging population in China could see many cases<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">A report for Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease International, published  in The Lancet, found a new case of dementia arising every seven  seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">It estimated 24.3 million people currently have dementia,  with 4.6 million new cases being diagnosed each year as the population  ages.<!--more--><br \/>\nBy 2040 the number is predicted to have risen to 81.1 million.<br \/>\nThe report said most people living with dementia are in the developing world, with five million in China alone.<br \/>\nThis compares with 4.8 million in Western Europe and 3.4 million in North America.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Continue: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/4530740.stm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/4530740.stm<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of cases of dementia world-wide is likely to double every 20 years, say researchers. An aging population in China could see many cases A report for Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease International, published in The Lancet, found a new case of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/2005\/12\/30\/dementia-cases-are-set-to-soar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40871,40875],"tags":[40864,42120,10996],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}