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June 2006
 Early Onset Dementia: A National Challenge, A Future Crisis
This report incorporates the new analysis of data from the Health
and Retirement Survey (HRS) with a survey conducted by the
Alzheimer's Association and in-depth, personal interviews, all of
which paint a picture of the early onset of Alzheimer's and dementia
among a hidden generation of Americans under age 65.
Data from the HRS indicated that
there may be as many as a half a million Americans under age 65 who
have dementia or a cognitive impairment at a level of severity
consistent with dementia. Combining this with data from other
studies, the Alzheimer's Association calculated that there were
between 220,000 and 640,000 people with early onset Alzheimer's or
related dementia in the U.S.
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