Silver Tsunami

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Silver Tsunami
Global impact on health care
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• European nations Italy Greece, Spain, Austria,
  Germany and Sweden will experience unprecedented
  labor shortage by 2010.
• Work force will decrease by 18 in Japan in the
  next 20 years.

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• Presently 4.5 tax payers contribute for the care
  of one elderly
• By year 2030 that figure is going to be 3/ every
  elderly
• (worker per retiree ratio)

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Alzheimers study group report 4/09

• a greater crisis than the mortgage crisis
• .Business cannot go on as usual

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• Over the next 40 yrs Alzheimers related costs to
  Medicare and Medicaid alone are projected to
  total 20 trillion
• For every dollar that federal government spends
  on cost of Alzheimers care, it invests less than
  a penny to find a cure

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Need more research

• HIV one million patients in US 29 billion in
  research
• West nile virus 1350 cases in 2008
• Research dollars for west nile virus
  14,000/patient
• For ALZHEIMERS 137/patient

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• The world is rapidly aging and so is America
• Even though Alzheimers disease is associated
  with aging, it is not normal part of aging.

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Alzheimers is a family disease. It places a
long term progressive burden on those who care
for people with the disease
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Alzheimers study group report

• Alzheimers Prevention Initiative
• Alzheimers Care Improvement Initiative
• Alzheimers Public-Private Partnership

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Alzheimers Care Improvement Initiative

• By 2012, use value-based payments to reimburse
  providers for at least 20 of health and social
  services for people with dementia, and for half
  of these services by 2016. Value-based payments
  will reward health care and social services
  professionals for providing the coordinated care
  dementia patients most need for better health and
  a higher quality of life.

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Alzheimers prevention initiative

• As a national priority , urgently focus on
  developing the capability to delay and,
  ultimately prevent Alzheimers disease.
• This capability will depend on the
  advancement of development science as well as
  basic research.

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Alzheimers Public-Private Partnership

• By 2010, establish an outcome-oriented,
  project-focused Alzheimers Solution Project
  Office within the Federal Government. Backed by
  an appropriate scale of funding and through
  active collaboration with other stakeholders
  outside the Federal Government, this office will
  lead the successful implementation of the
  Alzheimers Prevention and the Alzheimers Care
  Improvement initiatives, together with supporting
  efforts.

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• The Alzheimers Solution Project is as urgent
  and inspirational as any national project our
  country has yet undertaken.

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• There are no Alzheimers survivors
• Average life span of Alzheimers patient after
  diagnosis is 8 years.
• Range 2 to 20 yr.

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Alarming trends

• Age adjusted death rate decreased for Heart,
  Cancer and Stroke according to National Vital
  Statistics Report from CDC in 2004 but it
  increased for Alzheimers.

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Timeline of A.D.
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http//Grace The Path of Alzheimer's Disease
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• ..Thank You
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