[gemy]

Dementia is quite simply devastating on all the family. The wife/husband, daughters/sons, etc.

I believe the stats run something like this 5-8% is the expected rate of the senior population who will end up with dementia of one nature or another. We have a huge % of our population coming into the senior years right now.

In Ontario about 15 yrs ago or so, there was a huge push to build more facilities for assisted living of varying degrees, although the distribution of the facilities may not serve the individual local needs. Luckily for me before both my parents had to go into one of these facilities about 5yrs earlier they had completed 2 new faciities about 5 miles from where I lived.

The numbers are staggering if the pop of USA is 300 mill about 46% is 50+ that means 100 mill or so folks will end up with dementia over the next 30 yrs.

It is a worthy question to ask your local representative how your county/state plans on coping with this. What is/has been put into place to handle these kinds of numbers.