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Tackling Missouri’s Dementia Crisis
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130,000 Missourians have dementia; 250,000 unpaid caregivers face isolation, service gaps.
Over 130,000 Missourians live with dementia, and nearly a quarter million unpaid caregivers face isolation, service gaps, and regional disparities—challenges that advocates like Mark Applegate and Jay Hardenbrook are working to address.
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Sense of Community
Tackling Missouri’s Dementia Crisis
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Over 130,000 Missourians live with dementia, and nearly a quarter million unpaid caregivers face isolation, service gaps, and regional disparities—challenges that advocates like Mark Applegate and Jay Hardenbrook are working to address.
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[PIANO MUSIC] NARRATOR: The Department of Health and Senior services estimates over 130,000 people are living with Alzheimer's disease and dementia in Missouri.
The Nonprofit Alzheimer's Impact Movement believes there are almost a quarter million unpaid caregivers in the state.
There's a lot of resources in the Ozarks, but access to them is hard, and you have to patch work it together.
So knowing where all the help is and procuring the help is a big need.
And that's one of the big things we do.
We'll talk to someone and help walk them through applying for Medicaid.
We'll walk them through relief programs for caregivers.
So we kind of help people navigate a lot of that stuff.
NARRATOR: He knows it can be overwhelming for those just starting their caregiving journey.
Jay Hardenbrook knows that, too.
Hardenbrook is associate state director for AARP, which is primarily an advocacy organization.
JAY HARDENBROOK: We've been pretty focused on caregiving for a while.
We passed the CARE Act, requiring that hospitals actually provide training to caregivers.
Medicaid expansion-- when we worked on that, our main focus was making sure that caregivers who have to leave work can continue to have health insurance.
The thing I worry about more in the state of Missouri is those disparities from area to area here.
Springfield is fortunate to have two major hospital systems, but we have people who live in the shadow of a hospital that wouldn't be able to get services there.
The disparities that we have in the state are addressable.
I think we are constantly having to evolve and learn new systems to do that.
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