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I know a bit about this issue since my Mother died of advanced Parkinson disease five years ago.

She lived 27 years with Parkinson disease and my family chipped in to pay for acute care on a 24/7 basis.

The enormous financial costs were the easiest to handle.

The slow deterioration of my mother who lived with tubes that fed her and kept her alive unconscious with no quality of life was the tragic toll inflicted on the entire family.

It is an outrageous abuse of power and dangerous political ploy to phony up the medical debate on these horrific diseases and the great pain and suffering that goes with them.

Shame on Dr.

Katz for his disastrous admissions policies that created this mess, Shame on Mayor Newsom, the only voice from the Board of Supervisors against the Laguna Honda bonds, who now shows his callous indecency as author of the No on D ballot argument that legitimizes Katz's demented medical theory.

Shame on the Controller for not having the courage to stand up to this political outrage.

This gutter ball handling of the treatment of sick individuals who pose no risk to others will trigger an outcry from doctors, the medical community and advocates that will be heard from coast-to-coast.

How could anyone who knows anything about these diseases believe anything from Dr ...

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Many people don't realize they have the disease, often dismissing the symptoms as just the signs of "old age." Because of these factors, researchers and the Alzheimer's Association have labeled the disease as a silent epidemic, one that is a growing health crisis among black Americans.

Now, if blacks were not vexed enough by disproportionate rates of high blood pressure and high cholesterol, according to research, these same vascular illnesses seem to be significant risk factors for triggering Alzheimer's.

If you are African American and suffer from both, you are four times more likely to develop ba href=/dementia/a/b.

Blacks also have a 60 percent greater chance of developing type 2 diabetes, a direct contributor to vascular disease.

Over the next 30 years, as the baby boom population ages, it is estimated that 6.9 million black Americans will be at risk, more than double what the numbers are now.

Futhermore, there are two health-care phenomena that negatively affect black Americans with Alzheimer's disease.

One, black Americans remain seriously underrepresented in clinical trials of potential treatments.

And two, they tend not to see a doctor until the disease is more advanced and there are fewer ways that the doctor can help them.

The Coates family did not seek treatment for their mom earlier because they didn't ...

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