Summary: Here is a "top" growth number our neighbor Tarrant County does not want. "Texas Department of State Health Services found 23% of the state’s Alzheimer’s care recipients are in Tarrant County — the highest among the 254 counties. Tarrant County is far ahead of Harris County, which follows with 10.6%." Thankfully Parker County is only at 3.7%.
Latest Update: Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Tarrant County leads state in Alzheimer’s case numbers [1]
Here is a "top" growth number our neighbor Tarrant County does not want. "Texas Department of State Health Services found 23% of the state’s Alzheimer’s care recipients are in Tarrant County — the highest among the 254 counties. Tarrant County is far ahead of Harris County, which follows with 10.6%." Thankfully Parker County is only at 3.7%.
"In Texas, the number of individuals with Alzheimer’s 65 and older is expected to be 490,000 in 2025, a 22.5% increase since 2021, according to the Alzheimer’s Association."
Why...
Tarrant County seems, in my opinion, to do a better job of actually tracking the cases and identifying the cases.”
“Another part of that is that more people are being diagnosed.”
The data may also be a result of Tarrant County already being as ethnically diverse as the U.S. is expected to be in 2050.
“This also means that there’s oftentimes larger health disparities because of poverty, because of access to health care and other social determinants that get in the way of access,”
The Hispanic community, which makes up 30% of Tarrant County’s population, is expected to experience the single largest growth in Alzheimer’s patients over the next 20 years.
Another age-related factor is a population shift that increases the number of those who are 65 and older, the ages that are at risk for Alzheimer’s. O’Bryant says he sees many older residents from rural areas move to communities like Tarrant County for better health care.
[1] Tarrant County leads state in Alzheimer’s case numbers – but there’s hope. Fort Worth Report, 10 July 2023
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• Healthy Lives Matter Spotlights Alzheimer’s And Dementia, > Tarrant County, Texas, 14 July 2022, Excerpt, In Texas, the number of individuals with Alzheimer’s aged 65 and older is projected to increase from 400,000 in 2021 to 490,000 in 2025, a 22.5 percent increase. During the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, there were 4,778 more deaths than expected from Dementia in Texas, 25.9 percent higher than average, according to the Alzheimer’s Association.
• Alzheimer's Disease Statistics, > Texas Health and Human Services
• North Central Texas >A lzheimer’s Association
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