Medical News Today reports that The Alzheimer's Association has developed a set of tools to help this group cope with the disease, from a telenovela DVD describing the impact of the disease on a family to an online virtual tour of the brain in Spanish.
Why is this group the fastest growing group vulnerable to Alzheimer's? A combination of lifestyle factors plus the sheer fact that their population is growing at a high rate accounts for this phenomenon. Diabetes and high cholesterol related diseases is another contributory factor.
Two other observations of note:
- Latinos have the highest longevity rate among ethnic Americans, which was the strongest predictor of developing the disease
- Latinos develop Alzheimer's on average about seven years earlier than other non-Latino white Americans
