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In the United States, Latinos are 1.5 times more likely than non-Latino whites to develop Alzheimer’s disease. Right now, the Latino population makes up the country’s youngest racial or ethnic group, and as this population ages, a dramatic increase in cases of Alzheimer’s disease could follow.
What are health care professionals doing to prepare for this increase? What other factors might be contributing to their increased risk for the disease? And what can Latinos do to protect their brain health?
In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Dr. Melissa Hladek and Jason Resendez join the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing’s On the Pulse Podcast to discuss these questions and more.
Hladek is assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins…
