I'm loving the new Kasich slogan in Ohio: "He's tough, but he listens and Ohio is on the rise".
I'm sure I'll be hearing a lot of it being in a large urban center with a strong puritan ethic attitude.
I would like to see increased funding to emergency crisis agencies but we need a strong tax base for that to happen, and I think we're going in the right direction.
There is just so much work to do, and so little time. And all problems we face are going to get worse before they get better.
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Alzheimer’s disease is practically unheard of in adults younger than 40, and very rare (one in 2,500) for those under 60. It affects 1 percent of 65-year-olds, 2 percent of 68-year-olds, 3 percent of 70-year-olds. After that, the odds start multiplying. The likelihood of your developing Alzheimer’s more or less doubles every five years past 65. Should you make it to 85, you will have, roughly, a fifty-fifty shot at remaining sane.
Eighty-five, though! That’s infinity-and-a-day away. Except that, by 2030, the population of Americans aged 65 and over also will have doubled. At that point, the number of people suffering from Alzheimer’s or related dementias around the world is expected to hit 76 million. Twenty years after that, in 2050, the number will be 135 million, including new cases in rapidly modernizing places like China and sub-Saharan Africa. The cost of their care in this country alone is projected to hit $1 trillion per annum, inflation not included.
When the boomers hit 85 we better have a response ready for this...we can't just pray there will be a medical response, there must be a social response ready.
This is where I'm carving out my niche. You other bright minds, find a problem you care deeply about, and go to work.
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Lol, I seen that post before I read Jay's and didn't get it at first.
This post was edited by Skinned on Sep 4 2014 09:38am