>>More Alzheimer's Doctors Needed in Pennsylvania
(Harrisburg, PA) -- An executive with the Pennsylvania Alzheimer's Association is concerned about a lack of doctors to treat the disease. Clay Jacobs says the state is seeing a shortage of dementia-care doctors and workers as the rate of Alzheimer's continues to rise. Right now, 280-thousand Pennsylvanians are living with Alzheimer's disease. Within three years, that number is expected to grow by more than 14-percent. Jacobs also tells WMPT-TV there are only just under 300 geriatricians in the whole state and he says that number needs to increase by at least 120-percent.