Epidemic of Dementia: Shadow Economic Crisis

The country is in the midst of an "epidemic of dementia." It rocks the foundations of families. Few perceive its prevalence because it begins on a micro level -- family to family. Without an effective means to connect shared experiences, families are unable to advocate and influence critical changes at both the state and national level. Some in the media write about dementia being widespread. Few detail its far-reaching, financial impact. Economists track the instability of the macro-economy while woefully unaware of the shadow economic crisis that is deepening from town-to-town and state-to-state across America. A tsunami of health care debt is welling to a point where it will undermine the national economy. Families are already caught in the undertow. Forbes Contributor, Todd Hixon, warns: "If the trends of the last 20 years continue, health care spending will eat up U.S. GDP in our children's lifetimes." It is a serious warning projecting devastating consequences.

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