Preventing and treating dementia is the focus of a new $100 million building planned for the UT Health Science Center of San Antonio campus.
Brenda Bazán / San Antonio Report
Dolly Gonzalez’s mother died from complications of Alzheimer’s in 2018. Her father has since developed dementia.Flores is one of an estimated 6.5 million Americans age 65 and older who are living with Alzheimer’s or dementia in 2022, according to data from the Chicago Health and Aging Project.
Director of the Glenn Briggs Institute for Alzheimer’s & Neurodegenerative Diseases Dr. Sudha Seshadri at the annual South Texas Alzheimer’s Conference at UT Health San Antonio.“We need to recruit more people, because we have a waiting list of people to be seen,” Seshadri said.Arturo and Mary Lou Rodriguez were sweethearts at Edgewood High School in 1960 and 1961.
“For the most part, people don’t know how to deal with people with Alzheimer’s,” she said. “The worst thing that you can do … is to say ‘I’ve already told you’ or ‘I already answered the question for you.’ How do you think that makes us feel?”It is an “illness that deprives us of our narrative,” said Dr. Ihsan Salloum, founding chairman and professor in the Department of Neuroscience and director of the Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine.
Presentations at the two-day conference centered on dementia research in disadvantaged populations and also how to approach the detection and management of dementia with a culturally informed approach. “Research does suggest that Black and Latinx adults are up to twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s and related dementias compared to non-Latinx whites,” Rosselli said. “These are populations that also have high rates of cardiovascular comorbidities.”
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