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The Elderly is the Fastest-Growing Segment of our Population 22,431,000 people in the U.S. were > age 65 in 1980 57,590,000 in the U.S. will be > age 65 in 2030 Alzheimer’s Disease is diagnosed for: 10% of people >65 20% of people >75 40% of people >85 80% of people >95

Look at the difference if you delay progression by just 10 years.

In just the last five years, studies have continually shown the positive impacts of diet in reducing the development of dementia-like symptoms both in mice and in human cells. Many studies support that a diet high in antioxidants may be able to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s Disease.  Fresh fruits such as apples and pears are high in antioxidants. Apples are believed to have significant amounts of the antioxidant quercitin. Researchers point to the increasing number of elderly in the U.S. population as reason to take notice of these findings.

Source: Research conducted by Thomas B. Shea, Ph.D. and Director of the Center for Cellular Neurobiology and Neurodegeneration at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. These statistics were sourced from a presentation posted here.