It is now up 39% since the year 2000. Presently 5.4 million Americans are living with it.
One new solution is to install a pacemaker in the brain which increases connectivity within the brain. It is similar to the pacemaker people with heart problems use.
Source NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams March 19th 2013.
Both Senile dementia and Alzheimers are fatal diseases with no real present cure. I myself had to take care of my mother and be responsible legally for her from around 2000 when she first started showing signs of having some perceptual problems regarding recognition of who she was and who other people were. She finally passed away in 2008 one month after she slipped into a coma. Her doctor said that if the hadn't gotten senile dementia she likely would have lived to over 100 as she had no serious health problems other than this. She passed away shortly before her 90th birthday.
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