Is it old age or Alzheimer’s? Study alarms health-care experts

http://www.thestar.com/article/1110158--is-it-old-age-or-alzheimer-s-study-alarms-health-care-experts

According to Alzheimer Society statistics, the economic costs of dementia in Canada will increase tenfold by 2038, from the current $15 billion to $153 billion a year.

“Early diagnosis also enables us to monitor changes in the patient so that medication, if appropriate, can be started earlier instead of later,” Lemire adds. “It is possible to live with this disease and have a reasonable quality of life, if detected in the early stages.”