Rates of dementiain the US appear to have hit a plateau — casting doubt on previous predictions of spiralling diagnoses in the years to come. The ’s latest National Health Interview Survey reported that four percent of American seniors over 65 have dementia, a figure that is largely unchanged since the last poll in 2019. The figure is lower than the rates of seniors who have other chronic conditions, such as heart disease, which is suffered by 14 percent of those aged 65-74, and , which is prevalent in the lifetimes of 17 percent of the age group.
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