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Speaker 1: Something that's not happy a ultim diagnosis or dealing with
Speaker 1: a loved one that has Alzheimer's. It's such a nefarious,
Speaker 1: nefarious disease. Joining me to talk about some statistics and
Speaker 1: they are frightening statistics regarding Alzheimer's here in the state
Speaker 1: of Ohio, but also nationally. Ana Marie Barnett, she's the
Speaker 1: executive director of Alzheimer's Association of Greater Cincinnati alz dot
Speaker 1: org and then you can find the Cincinnati chapter at
Speaker 1: the national website. Animerie, Welcome to the fifty five Carosee
Speaker 1: Morning Show. Let me initially start by thanking you for
Speaker 1: what you do at the Alzheimer's Association.
Speaker 4: Well, thank you so much for having me today, and
Speaker 4: thank you for helping us spread the word and bring awareness.
Speaker 5: This is kind of takes. This is what it's going
Speaker 5: to take.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, having lived through with my father and
Speaker 1: you know watching my mom struggle caring for him, you know,
Speaker 1: you get to the point where you know the caregiver
Speaker 1: is is put in a state of medical jeopardy almost
Speaker 1: as much as the person with Alzheimer's, because it's really
Speaker 1: a twenty four to seven proposition dealing with the person
Speaker 1: that struggles with alzheim the care, the clean out, the
Speaker 1: trying to encourage them to eat when they won't eat,
Speaker 1: and you know, wanting to wander away. I mean, the
Speaker 1: problems are just unlimited. And so we ultimately had to
Speaker 1: put my father in an Alzheimer's care facility and that
Speaker 1: comes with its unique challenges as well. So I have
Speaker 1: a very close connection with him. Of course, this is
Speaker 1: what killed him ultimately, But he's not alone. I mean,
Speaker 1: my late father was not alone. The number of folks
Speaker 1: in Ohio alone with Alzheimer's Anna Marie.
Speaker 5: Two hundred and thirty six, two hundred is that number?
Speaker 1: Is it growing faster over the years, because I get
Speaker 1: a sense that you know, you hear about oh come on,
Speaker 1: the word slipping mind see here. I am struggling this
Speaker 1: morning as well. But the number of people with said
Speaker 1: various diseases seems to be on the increase. Autism is
Speaker 1: what I was struggling for. That's increased dramatically. Has the
Speaker 1: number of people with Alzheimer's diagnosis increased over.
Speaker 5: The years, Unfortunately it has.
Speaker 4: Last year in our stats, we reported about nearly six
Speaker 4: million Americans with the disease, and this year Unfortunately, it's
Speaker 4: seven point two million Americans living with Alzheimer's disease, and
Speaker 4: that that number does keep increasing. You know, we're seeing
Speaker 4: people age, you know, people are the age of sixty five.
Speaker 5: They're just growing and growing.
Speaker 4: But the other reason we're seeing the increase is people
Speaker 4: are getting an early diagnosis. People are talking to their physician.
Speaker 4: They want to know if they have the disease. We
Speaker 4: found that in our survey this year that one in
Speaker 4: nine people that we surveyed said I want to know
Speaker 4: if I had Alzheimer's disease.
Speaker 5: So that is what we need.
Speaker 4: We need people to touch with their physicians. We need
Speaker 4: early diagnosis. And because we know we have some treatments
Speaker 4: out there, we know that there's some things that we
Speaker 4: can do. We know that people want to be in
Speaker 4: there in part of their care planning. And that's so
Speaker 4: so vital and so important for people to know early
Speaker 4: that they have this disease or another type of dementia.
Speaker 1: Do they go about diagnosing that you have Alzheimer's disease
Speaker 1: or that you are likely to get it? You don't
Speaker 1: contract it. It's just part of your genetic makeup, isn't it.
Speaker 4: That's yes, that's true. It is actually a disease. Your
Speaker 4: brain is physically dying. When you talk to your physician,
Speaker 4: it starts very easily as just a cognitive test. If
Speaker 4: the physician see something more, they'll send you for greater testing.
Speaker 4: Right now, the testing to determine Alzheimer's disease is either
Speaker 4: a PET scan, which is very expensive most insurance doesn't cover,
Speaker 4: or a spinal tap, which women would know. That's not
Speaker 4: the most fun thing to do. A spinal tap is
Speaker 4: not great. But the best thing right now is there's
Speaker 4: actually a blood biomarkers test. So I can you imagine,
Speaker 4: just go to your doctor, get your annual exam. While
Speaker 4: they're running all your blood for everything else, they can
Speaker 4: test you for Alzheimer's disease. And that is incredible.
Speaker 1: Well, that is I didn't realize they had gotten it
Speaker 1: down to as simple as a blood based test.
Speaker 2: Is it one of those.
Speaker 1: Potentially there could be a false positive or false negative
Speaker 1: type of tests. I always worry about that.
Speaker 5: Of course, of course, yeah, yeah, of course, nothing's perfect.
Speaker 5: Of course. Of course.
Speaker 4: You know, the blood bio marker test is not widely
Speaker 4: available in primary care just yet, but they are using
Speaker 4: it and research I know that our friends that you
Speaker 4: see are using it as well, but they're also using
Speaker 4: the other testing along with it, just you know, to
Speaker 4: make sure that the diagnosis is clear. They are still
Speaker 4: using a pet scan or a spinal tap. But the
Speaker 4: accuracy of the blood bio marker is is like ninety
Speaker 4: eight percent.
Speaker 5: It's amazing, and that's you know, think about all the
Speaker 5: people in the rural areas.
Speaker 4: That don't have access to you know, positions, and they
Speaker 4: don't have access to hospitals. You know, it's this is
Speaker 4: really going to, you know, be a game changer for us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I'm vacillating back and forth in my
Speaker 1: head whether I would want to know, you know, everybody
Speaker 1: always has their quote unquote senior moment. I think, oh
Speaker 1: my god, is this an indicator that maybe the onset
Speaker 1: of Alzheimer's. But getting a definitive yes, you do, would
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know how that would upend
Speaker 1: my life or how I would react to that. Let's pause,
Speaker 1: We'll bring Anne Marie Barnett, executive director of the Alzheimer's
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Speaker 1: Seven forty fifty five KRCD Talk Station, Anna Marie Barnett,
Speaker 1: executive Director Alzheimer's Association with Greater Cincinnati talking Alzheimer's here,
Speaker 1: and the statistics are not pretty to look at. More
Speaker 1: and more people are being diagnosed with Alzheimer's. You did
Speaker 1: mention there is a blood test that you can have
Speaker 1: to find out whether or not you are we're going
Speaker 1: to get Alzheimer's, or have the indication you are. And
Speaker 1: I expressed, Anna Marie, some concern about knowing that, because
Speaker 1: you know, how do you live your life knowing the
Speaker 1: next day it may start presenting itself or you may
Speaker 1: start having problems. You know what the inevitable is going
Speaker 1: to be because at least as of right now, there's
Speaker 1: no cure for it. So first let me address the
Speaker 1: question for marine, is there a name for that blood
Speaker 1: biomarker test for Alzheimer's or you just ask your physician, Hey,
Speaker 1: including my blood results, I want the blood based biomarker
Speaker 1: test for Alzheimer's sure.
Speaker 4: Well, as I mentioned, it is not widely available in
Speaker 4: primary care physicians offices right now.
Speaker 5: Most of them are not familiar with it yet.
Speaker 4: We are actually in the process of creating some more
Speaker 4: guidelines around how to use the blood biomarker. So there
Speaker 4: are some positions I know that are using it, but
Speaker 4: they are also using it in conjunction with other testing
Speaker 4: just to get an accurate diagnosis. So you may go
Speaker 4: to your position and they may say, I have no
Speaker 4: idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 5: So we sell a.
Speaker 4: Little bit more time before we can get this widely
Speaker 4: available in primary care. But if you go to a homrologist,
Speaker 4: you can start asking those questions and they can start
Speaker 4: getting you a diagnosis much easier and much sooner.
Speaker 5: You know, it is going to be a game changer.
Speaker 4: It's a blood biomarker test and a simple thing er pricks,
Speaker 4: so it's going to be really pretty amazing.
Speaker 5: But there is no name yet.
Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough, And obviously if you aren't seeing a neurologist,
Speaker 1: you could get a PCP to refer you to one
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Speaker 1: over one of the reasons that would Negate. My concern
Speaker 1: about knowing, it's like, I don't know one way or
Speaker 1: another whether I would want to know about this, But
Speaker 1: there are they are rolling out some treatment options for
Speaker 1: folks to get ahead of it. Do we have any
Speaker 1: really positive information along the lines of treatments that's available
Speaker 1: out there Anemory.
Speaker 4: Yes, we actually have two treatments right now that are
Speaker 4: showing to slow the progression of the disease down in
Speaker 4: the early early stages of the disease in most people.
Speaker 4: We actually I know that there are people right here
Speaker 4: in Gridter, Cincinnati that are getting that treatment, which is amazing.
Speaker 5: They're doing very well.
Speaker 4: I actually we had a big GABA last night and
Speaker 4: I did text this people there last night that were
Speaker 4: on the treatment. They're doing really well. And we have
Speaker 4: one hundred and forty one more treatments in the pipeline.
Speaker 4: We have, you know, four hundred and thirty million dollars
Speaker 4: across the world in fifty six centuries and eleven hundred projects.
Speaker 5: In research, So we are going.
Speaker 4: To find a cure. We're going to find more treatments
Speaker 4: and the best thing I think one of the things
Speaker 4: I really want everyone to know and be aware of
Speaker 4: is At the end of July, we will be coming
Speaker 4: out with results from our US POINTER study that we
Speaker 4: actually did here in the United States that we funded.
Speaker 5: It is a prevention study.
Speaker 4: It is talking about lifestyle change and what you can
Speaker 4: do to help prevent all summer's disease. So I cannot
Speaker 4: wait for those results. I'm very excited about those. This
Speaker 4: is a study that's going on worldwide and the results
Speaker 4: have been amazing. So everybody keeps asking me, that's that's
Speaker 4: a question. Everybody asked me. How do I prevent? What
Speaker 4: do I do?
Speaker 2: What do I do?
Speaker 4: Stay tuned, Stay tuned. We'll have more for you on
Speaker 4: some lifestyle change. It's all common sense, right, but.
Speaker 5: You have to sit with it. You have you have
Speaker 5: to have a just like anything, if you go on
Speaker 5: a diet, right, you have to stick with it. So
Speaker 5: you have to sit with the lifestyle change.
Speaker 1: So this will be dietary changes, perhaps, exercise changes perhaps,
Speaker 1: or maybe exercises like you know, brain exercises, like reading,
Speaker 1: is it is it?
Speaker 2: Things along those lines, Yes, all.
Speaker 5: Of that, all of that.
Speaker 4: So exercise, you know, making sure that you're going out
Speaker 4: and interacting with people. That's a huge that's a huge deal.
Speaker 4: Exercising your brain. Nutrition you know, is definitely really really
Speaker 4: huge as well. So yes, all of those things will
Speaker 4: be coming out, and you know, having science behind lifestyle
Speaker 4: change and knowing that that's going to help you in
Speaker 4: the future, I think is going to be really another
Speaker 4: game changer that we have.
Speaker 1: Well, can I at least ask you if you have
Speaker 1: any inside baseball on what we're putting into our bodies
Speaker 1: that maybe we shouldn't be that are it's connected perhaps
Speaker 1: with the higher incidents of Alzheimer's disease.
Speaker 4: No that that there's no definitive tests that are saying, yeah,
Speaker 4: don't eat this at all. The brain is complicated, right, Yeah,
Speaker 4: so it's going to take a little bit more time
Speaker 4: to figure out, like, you know what, what is it?
Speaker 5: It's going to be am. It's a combination of things,
Speaker 5: you know.
Speaker 4: And one of the things we're saying with Alzheimer's disease
Speaker 4: now is you don't just have Alzheimer's disease, but we're
Speaker 4: seeing mixed dementia. For example, my mother had vascular dementia
Speaker 4: and Alzheimer's disease, So we're seeing that, you know, this
Speaker 4: is a little more complicated even that we originally thought, so.
Speaker 2: There is a sort of a spectrum for Alzheimer's.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, yes, it's you know, dementia is are umbrella term, right,
Speaker 4: and then under dementia there's different types of Alzheimer's disease.
Speaker 4: There's different types of dementia. Pypologize. Alzheimer's is the most common. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it starts very early with mild cognitive impairment, you know,
Speaker 4: early stage. So there is a progression of the disease
Speaker 4: that we're very familiar with. And that's something you know
Speaker 4: when you were saying you don't know if you want
Speaker 4: to know, knowing just gives you knowledge, right, It gives
Speaker 4: you the wherewithal to say, Okay, this is what I
Speaker 4: want you know in my life, this is my plan.
Speaker 4: The other thing that does is it helps the people
Speaker 4: in your life. It helps your family know, like why
Speaker 4: is you know, why is he acting like that? I
Speaker 4: don't understand. It explains behavior. It's it's really important to know.
Speaker 4: And I would just encourage people if they want to know.
Speaker 4: You know, it's hard, right, I mean, I.
Speaker 5: Know it's a difficult decision whether or not you want
Speaker 5: to know.
Speaker 4: But just seeing what I've seen and knowing the people
Speaker 4: that are in the early stages that are actively involved
Speaker 4: in their care planning. I think it's really important for
Speaker 4: people to be involved in now.
Speaker 1: Oh, you make some good arguments. Anna Marie Barbet, Executive
Speaker 1: douction All Sides. So Alzheimer's Association grittersons Ani alz dot
Speaker 1: org is where you start national chapter and then there's
Speaker 1: the chapters that are local you can find on that website.
Speaker 1: And I suppose Anna Marie, that's a place where people
Speaker 1: can stay on top of the release of these new
Speaker 1: studies and information that are coming out.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, yes, alz dot Org slash Cincinnati is our local website.
Speaker 5: We will definitely have more coming out.
Speaker 4: It's actually from our Alzheimer's Association International conference. It's the
Speaker 4: largest Alzheimer's research conference in the world. We will have
Speaker 4: lots of things coming out from that conference, So stay tuned,
Speaker 4: keep an eye on our website, follow us on Facebook.
Speaker 5: We will have everything posted on Facebook.
Speaker 4: It's the best research conference. I go every year and
Speaker 4: sometimes it's a little over my head, but you know,
Speaker 4: they are really good about tell dumbing it down for
Speaker 4: us and letting us know, like this is what this
Speaker 4: actually means. So those are the things that we will
Speaker 4: put out there, and I really do encourage people to
Speaker 4: keep an eye on that and make sure you know
Speaker 4: if you have questions, please call us locally.
Speaker 1: We're here for you, and consider donating to the Alzheimer's
Speaker 1: Organization if you have a charitable contribution in mind. And
Speaker 1: that's where we steered the uh the memorial contributions when
Speaker 1: my father passed away from the complications or complications of Alzheimer's.
Speaker 1: So happy to steer my listeners in that direction. Any
Speaker 1: little bit, every little bit counts in terms of doing
Speaker 1: this research. And I appreciate your optimism on the treatments
Speaker 1: that are coming out and hopefully we'll come out soon.
Speaker 1: And Marie, it just would be nice to know if
Speaker 1: anybody has any optimism about a treatment that might reverse
Speaker 1: the the Alzheimer's progression.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
Speaker 5: I do, I absolutely do. If if this was around
Speaker 5: on my mom.
Speaker 4: Had a disease, I would absolutely have made sure that
Speaker 4: she was, you know, a part of that treatment.
Speaker 5: But you know, when you can get more time, you know,
Speaker 5: what wouldn't you give? What wouldn't you give for more
Speaker 5: time with your dad? Right?
Speaker 2: Amen?
Speaker 4: Now this is but this is where we are and
Speaker 4: so we just need people to be a part of
Speaker 4: it and you know, help help help us fund of research.
Speaker 5: It's that's the vital part of this is the research.
Speaker 4: But I don't I do want to stress and make
Speaker 4: I really want to stress and make sure everyone knows.
Speaker 5: So if you're on the journey.
Speaker 4: Now or you get a diagnosis, we are here locally
Speaker 4: for you with care consultants, with our free programs and services,
Speaker 4: everything we have to help you through this journey until
Speaker 4: that day comes where we have a world without Alzheimer's
Speaker 4: and all of their dementia.
Speaker 1: Alc dot orgs Last Cincinnati, Anri, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for what you're doing each and every day and for
Speaker 1: spending time with my listeners and me this morning, very
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Speaker 2: You have a wonderful weekend. We'll talk again soon. Seven fifty.
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