Memory Loss and Dementia an Understudied Yet Widespread Phenomena Among Older Chinese Americans

Newswise — New Brunswick, NJ (August 26, 2019) – The U.S. Chinese population is growing – and graying – rapidly! From 2000 to 2010, the Chinese American population aged 65 and over grew at a rate four times higher than the overall U.S. older adult population. As of 2016, 14% of the approximately four million Chinese Americans were aged 65 and older. As this population ages, they are increasingly susceptible to memory loss and lacking the necessary supports for healthy aging, according to four new Rutgers studies published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

The studies are the first to extensively study memory loss and dementia in the…