All together now: one, two, three. That’s the amount of time it will take for someone, somewhere in the world, to become newly afflicted with dementia\u2014about one every three seconds, about 10 million every year. Almost two-thirds of those will be women.<\/p>\n
All told, a pretty good rationale for why we need the Woman’s Brain Health Initiative<\/a>. As the Toronto<\/a>-based organization points out, the gender-related causes of the ailments that interfere with cognition have too often been overlooked, taken for granted, or outright ignored. But with fully one million Canadian women projected to be living with Alzheimer’s and other degenerative mental disorders within 25 years, it’s high time we put our minds to it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n