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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Around 5.2 million Americans are currently suffering from Alzheimer's disease and by 2050, the number of people age 65 and older with Alzheimer's is projected to nearly triple to around 13.8 million.
So what can you do now to possibly offset Alzheimer's? You might be able to use the power of speech.
"There is actually a huge amount of research that shows us that people who speak two or more languages tend to decline less rapidly than those who don't," tells Dr. Tannahill Glen, a Neuropsychologist with Shands Jacksonville Medical Center.
In a study published in the magazine "Neurology", the Official Journal of the American Academy of Neurology, researchers found that bilingual patients were diagnosed around 4.3 years later and had an onset of symptoms around 5 years later than patients that only spoke one language.
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/...ial-link-between-language--Alzheimers-Disease
So what can you do now to possibly offset Alzheimer's? You might be able to use the power of speech.
"There is actually a huge amount of research that shows us that people who speak two or more languages tend to decline less rapidly than those who don't," tells Dr. Tannahill Glen, a Neuropsychologist with Shands Jacksonville Medical Center.
In a study published in the magazine "Neurology", the Official Journal of the American Academy of Neurology, researchers found that bilingual patients were diagnosed around 4.3 years later and had an onset of symptoms around 5 years later than patients that only spoke one language.
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/...ial-link-between-language--Alzheimers-Disease