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NEWS > HEALTH > ALZHEIMER’S RATES EASING IN SOUTH KOREAN CHILDREN
ALZHEIMER’S RATES EASING IN SOUTH KOREAN CHILDREN
November 26 2010
Seoul, South Korea – No one likes getting old. When you are young you dream of the freedoms of adulthood, and when you are and adult you dream of the freedoms of childhood. All of that stops after awhile however and the thoughts of both youth
and freedom start to fade as the realities of aging start settling in. Whether it’s achy knees or food that you can just no longer eat, the burdens of age started quickly and never end, causing many people to fear the inevitability of old age.
Aging of course is not what it once was. Alongside our ever growing longevity has come an increased level of health. While thirty may never be the new twenty, the reality is that people of every age are much healthier and much stronger than even their grandparents were at that age. Despite growing health concerns such as obesity, the collective health of people across the world is dramatically higher than it has been in the history of the species, allowing us to not only live longer but also more fulfilling lives. Unfortunately nature does have its ways and the diseases of age are not a thing of the past. However the battle is being fought and news out of South Korea is showing that one of the most frightening of old age diseases, Alzheimer’s, is now being beat back in the youth of the country.
“All forms of dementia are a paralyzing and devastating disease. They are harmful not only to the patient but also to the family who has to watch as their loved one starts to fade away long before they are dead. This hurts the health of not only the afflicted person but also of their loved ones,” said a government spokesperson. “We have taken on very active treatment methods in combating Alzheimer’s and all other forms of dementia because of this. While we do not believe that we have a cure, we do believe that these actions can certainly ease symptoms, particularly amongst the young people.”
Data for previous years was not presented, but 2010 data shows Alzheimer’s rates near zero percent for people under 20 years of age.
“In home treatment and active involvement from families has had a significant impact on the health and well-being of individuals who were previously subject to these types of illnesses. Now we have a new method for treatment that may be applied to persons regardless of age,” continued the spokesperson. “South Korea traditionally has low rates of these diseases amongst the youth but we feel that these new methods, perfected on this population, will help us develop methods that could be applied to other persons. Perhaps not the very elderly, but certainly people over the age of 20. We very much want to reduce and even eliminate the rate of these diseases amongst all our young people.”
Many young Alzheimer’s survivors have been contracted to help ease suffering felt by older patients in the country. 
“For many years things like Dementia and Alzheimer’s was considered almost exclusively an ailment of the elderly but what we are finding is that more and more often this disease is affecting the health and well-being of younger people all over the world. Things like forgetting where the car keys are or an anniversary date were once thought to be just a part of life, but now we are discovering it is something much deeper,” said Scrape TV Health analyst Rebecca Phelps. “By reducing these numbers amongst the youth so dramatically, South Korea has placed itself at the forefront of the battle to combat childhood dementia, one more front in the never ending war against the brain.”
Estimates place cases of dementia at 100 million by 2050, the majority of which will be suffered by the elderly.
Lauren Hebert, Health Correspondent
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