{"id":141583,"date":"2022-07-02T21:26:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T02:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/40-of-older-adults-newly-identified-form-of-dementia-is-shockingly-common"},"modified":"2022-07-02T21:26:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T02:26:23","slug":"40-of-older-adults-newly-identified-form-of-dementia-is-shockingly-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/40-of-older-adults-newly-identified-form-of-dementia-is-shockingly-common","title":{"rendered":"40% of Older Adults: Newly Identified Form of Dementia Is Shockingly Common"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/40-of-older-adults-newly-identified-form-of-dementia-is-shockingly-common2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent study indicates the prevalence of brain changes from limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy might be approximately 40% in older adults and as high as 50% in people with Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Alzheimer\u2019s disease is a disease that attacks the brain, causing a decline in mental ability that worsens over time. It is the most common form of dementia and accounts for 60 to 80 percent of dementia cases. There is no current cure for Alzheimer\u2019s disease, but there are medications that can help ease the symptoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study indicates the prevalence of brain changes from limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy might be approximately 40% in older adults and as high as 50% in people with Alzheimer\u2019s. Alzheimer\u2019s disease is a disease that attacks the brain, causing a decline in mental ability that worsens over time. It is the most common form [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}