Oklahoma legislative task force addresses Alzheimer’s

 
SUSAN SIMPSON | Modified: September 1, 2009 at 4:33 am | Published: September 1, 2009   

The number of Oklahomans living with Alzheimer’s disease is expected to reach 74,000 by next year, a 20 percent increase over a decade.

But progress in care and treatment of the disease is not keeping pace, according to a report released Monday by a governor-appointed task force that studied the impact of Alzheimer’s disease in Oklahoma.

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"This is the public health threat of the 21st century,” said Mark Fried, a task force member and executive vice president of the Oklahoma and Arkansas chapters of the...
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