Alzheimer's Disease And Baby Boomers

I have recently been studying Alzheimer's Disease as part of the site development. Currently 1 in 10 seniors (over the age of 65) has some level of Alzheimer's. This week I saw a documentary on the subject on PBS that said once we get in the middle of the baby boomers retirement, that Alzheimer's will be an epidemic. With 78 million baby boomers, that will be almost 8 million Alzheimer's patients in the US. Since Alzheimer's slowly takes away memory, ability to recognize family and friends, speech and even the ability to swallow, there will be a huge drain on society and on the country. The special estimated that the cost for caring for these seniors could be as a staging drain on the economy and a huge drain on the sandwich generation. In my case dad has a frontal lobe dementia which is equally bad. He does have some memory lose but he is losing his judgment first. He can't tell right from wrong so he makes a lot of bad decisions. We are still learning about how to treat the illness since we are awaiting news from the doctors.