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About 1 in 7 people age 60 or older have a brain condition that may be an early sign of Alzheimer’s disease.

Medicare’s “Part B” outpatient premium will jump by $21.60 a month in 2022, one of the largest increases ever.

Some patients who have had COVID-19 develop symptoms resembling early Alzheimer’s. Researchers are trying to figure out whether these people are more likely to develop the disease itself.

The drug is the first to show significant progress against the sticky brain plaques that are the hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease.

Less than a third of all personal care homes and assisted living facilities in the state have dementia units. But, the special subset of homes with those units account for nearly 70% of all such facilities that had five or more deaths from the virus.