{"id":24324,"date":"2025-04-30T08:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T12:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24324"},"modified":"2025-04-30T08:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T12:40:11","slug":"more-and-more-older-americans-want-to-know-their-alzheimers-status-survey-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24324","title":{"rendered":"More and more older Americans want to know their Alzheimer&#8217;s status, survey finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Jon Hamilton for NPR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Older Americans want to know if they are in the early stages of Alzheimer&#8217;s and would happily take a blood test to find out, according to a national survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The survey of 1,700 people 45 and older, part of a report from the Alzheimer&#8217;s Association, found growing interest in testing, diagnosis, and treatment for the deadly disease.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2025\/04\/30\/g-s1-63345\/alzheimers-survey-americans-testing-treatment-risky\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2025\/04\/30\/g-s1-63345\/alzheimers-survey-americans-testing-treatment-risky\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The 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 Jon Hamilton for NPR) Older Americans want to know if they are in the early stages of Alzheimer&#8217;s and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,26,14],"tags":[116,69,94],"class_list":["post-24324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-alzheimersdementia","category-medical-technology","tag-alzheimers-disease","tag-medical-technology","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24324","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=24324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24325,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24324\/revisions\/24325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}