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April Abel takes Joanne Ganaway’s blood pressure at Ganaway’s North Charleston, South Carolina, home. Roughly 8 million people 65 and older had dementia or needed help with two or more activities of basic daily life, like getting out of bed, according to an analysis of a federally funded survey of older Americans by KFF Health News and The New York Times. Only a million received paid help outside of a nursing home, and nearly 3 million had no help at all. (Desiree Rios/The New York Times/TNS)
April Abel takes Joanne Ganaway’s blood pressure at Ganaway’s North Charleston, South Carolina, home. Roughly 8 million people 65 and older had dementia or needed help with two or more activities of basic daily life, like getting out of bed, according to an analysis of a federally funded survey of older Americans by KFF Health News and The New York Times. Only a million received paid help outside of a nursing home, and nearly 3 million had no help at all. (Desiree Rios/The New York Times/TNS)
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Roughly 8 million people 65 and older had dementia or needed help with two or more activities of basic daily life, like getting out of bed. Only a million received paid help outside of a nursing home, and nearly 3 million had no help at all.

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