Large Alzheimer’s Study in Deep South Texas—Highest Cluster of Dementia Nationwide focuses on Hispanics/Latinos

By FYH News Team

Published on March 20, 2022

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The highest rates of Alzheimer’s Disease in America happen to be deep in South Texas along the Mexican border, the home of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) School of Medicine and its Alzheimer’s Resource Center for Minority Aging Research. Recently UTRGV secured a $2.9 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to identify local elders here to participate in an important and ambitious new study led by Gladys Maestre focusing on Hispanic elderly memory loss. TrialSite has chronicled the horrific effects of this disease—one that robs humans of their most cherished possession—the memory.

As reported recently by UTRGV School of Medicine, the Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Center for Minority Aging Research director Gladys Maestre went on the record recently:

“Elders are the keepers of the family memories, the efforts of those who tried to improve the family’s situation.” She continued “Transmitting that part of your history to your children is not going to be through genealogy software even though their popularity shows how many people are looking for that identity.”

Record Levels of Dementia

In this heavily Hispanic/Latino region of the United…

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