{"id":20521,"date":"2022-11-15T09:42:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T14:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20521"},"modified":"2022-11-15T09:42:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T14:42:38","slug":"dementia-rates-fell-30-over-16-years-working-and-education-may-deserve-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20521","title":{"rendered":"Dementia rates fell 30% over 16 years \u2014 working and education may deserve credit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Mariah Taylor for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers from RAND Corporation, a nonprofit think tank, found dementia rates dropped by 30.1 percent among individuals 65 and older over a 16-year period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study, published Nov. 7 in PNAS, analyzed data between 2000 and 2016 and sorted it by age, gender, race and ethnicity, education and lifetime earnings. Overall, dementia prevalence among men dropped by 40 percent, while it went down by 20 percent for women.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/patient-safety-outcomes\/dementia-rates-fell-30-over-16-years-working-and-education-may-deserve-credit.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/patient-safety-outcomes\/dementia-rates-fell-30-over-16-years-working-and-education-may-deserve-credit.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"175\" height=\"140\" class=\"wp-image-15587\" style=\"width: 175px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dreamstime_m_25486550dementia-alzheimers-memory-loss-caregivers.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dreamstime_m_25486550dementia-alzheimers-memory-loss-caregivers.jpg 1937w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dreamstime_m_25486550dementia-alzheimers-memory-loss-caregivers-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dreamstime_m_25486550dementia-alzheimers-memory-loss-caregivers-768x613.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dreamstime_m_25486550dementia-alzheimers-memory-loss-caregivers-1024x818.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Mariah Taylor for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Researchers from RAND Corporation, a nonprofit think tank, found dementia rates dropped by<\/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],"tags":[116,118,94],"class_list":["post-20521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-alzheimersdementia","tag-alzheimers-disease","tag-dementia","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20521","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=20521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20522,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20521\/revisions\/20522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}