{"id":15279,"date":"2020-02-21T07:44:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T12:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15279"},"modified":"2020-02-21T07:44:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T12:44:37","slug":"stalked-by-the-fear-that-dementia-is-stalking-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15279","title":{"rendered":"Stalked by The Fear That Dementia Is Stalking You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Do I know I\u2019m at risk for developing dementia? You bet.<\/p>\n<p>My father died of Alzheimer\u2019s disease at age 72; my sister was felled by frontotemporal dementia at 58.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s not all: Two maternal uncles had Alzheimer\u2019s, and my maternal grandfather may have had vascular dementia. (In his generation, it was called senility.)<\/p>\n<p>So what happens when I misplace a pair of eyeglasses or can\u2019t remember the name of a movie I saw a week ago? \u201cNow comes my turn with dementia,\u201d I think.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/stalked-by-the-fear-that-dementia-is-stalking-you\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News) Do I know I\u2019m at risk for developing dementia? You bet. My father<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,26,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-alzheimersdementia","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15280,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15279\/revisions\/15280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}