A New Study of Alzheimer's and MCI in the United States

Roy: Dementia's a huge and growing public health issue in the United States. With the aging of populations, there will certainly be an increase in the burden of cognitive decline and dementia," he says. "We thought that it was important to do this new study based on a large representative sample" The Health and Retirement Study started collecting data in 1992 for a representative population of U.S. adults 51 years and older.