Older adults recognize the threat posed by cognitive decline, which can make it hard for individuals to live independently. According to data from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research published in 2020 in the journal Epidemiology, since the mid-1990s, rates of dementia cases in the United States have risen steadily. Since that time, the annual increase for men is 2 percent, and for women it is 1.7 percent. Researchers concluded that “undercovering determinants of increasing cognitive impairment risk should become a research priority.”
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