New research suggests that the risk for developing dementia is significantly higher than previously estimated, and the burden on the US population will grow substantially over the next few decades: https://cnn.it/40vsLKx
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It means more will need daily supervision & care.
Kamala Harris ran on a plan to expand Medicare programs to pay family members to care for their loved ones at home, w/out the current Medicaid requirement of low/no assets.
Yet Republicans/Trump want to CUT Medicare instead.
Scientists worry these may be early indicators of a coming surge in dementia & other mental conditions, prolonging the pandemic’s societal, economic & health burden ...
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This country is going to be so old, tired, fat, and mentally cooked in 40 years it's so funny that anyone thinks this country can survive without immigrants
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Kamala Harris ran on a plan to expand Medicare programs to pay family members to care for their loved ones at home, w/out the current Medicaid requirement of low/no assets.
Yet Republicans/Trump want to CUT Medicare instead.
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Which doesn't reassure me much, since most of my female relatives lived way past 90. I have a living great-aunt who's 110.
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