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Show Sunday, November THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Page E4 4, 1990 Alzheimer's reports up; awareness may explain increase Recognized as more than just normal aging process By MARC RICE percent in eight years," said Dr. Richard Sun, an epidemiologist at the VS. Centers for Disease 900 Associated Press Writer Federal health researchers tracking a dramatic rise in reported deaths from Alzheimer's disease say more awareness of the malady, rather than a sharp rise in its incidence, is the main reason. "It's a little difficult to believe that the number of people with Alzheimer disease could increase ATLANTA Control in Atlanta. "Our general feeling is heightened awareness was a little more important" Sun said Thursday. The CDC said in its weekly report that 11,311 people, or 4.2 per 100,000 population, died from Alzheimer's disease in 1987. In 1979, the first year of a CDC study, 857 He said there currently is no definitive study of how many people have Alzheimer's. or 0.4 per 100,000, were attributed to the disease. For the entire 1979-8- 7 period, Alzheimer's disease was listed as the underlying cause of death for 46,202 people in the United States. The disease, characterized by progressive menial deterioration, first was recognized in the early 1900s. But public awareness of the disease was fairly limited until the the U.S. population is aging it is likely that incidence of the disease also is up though not as much as the death rate increase, Sun said. that Alzheimer disease was a specific disease ... and not a normal deaths, Alzheimer's disease tends to strike older people, and because The disease has gotten Associated Press Writer In the ANCHORAGE, Alaska back country of Alaska, out of the reach of television, commercial radio or even daily newspapers, thousands of families are staying in touch the way. They're reading books. Bush pilots regularly fly library books to some 3,000 Alaskans to fulfill a promise dating from territorial days that all residents should have equal access to public libraries. For people such as Elaine and Pete Velsko and their two daughters, who live on Tutka Bay, 125 miles from Anchorage, those green mailbags full of books, which arrive once or twice a month, offer both education and entertainment "My husband asks for all He wants to keep up with the world," Elaine Velsko says. "But I like my stories. If I didn't get my green bags, I think I'd perish out here." Mrs. Velsko has spent 13 years on Tutka Bay, 14 miles from Homer, managing her modern ranch home and teaching her children, ages 8 and 4, through correspondence courses. Her husband runs the state fish hatchery nearby. The way some people might flick on a soap opera, she'll pull a novel non-fictio- n. out of the sack and read. "We are living more the pioneering life," she says. "It's what we want" About 175 miles north, in the village of Skwentna, Joe and Norma Delia have spent 40 years on their homestead hunting, trapping, running the post office and reading Down-i-n library books to their two children. "For my kids, books were a big thing in their lives," Joe Delia says. "They didn't have things that kids in town have to occupy their 10-ac- time." Begun in 1957, bush Alaska's library service operated for more than a decade out of the state library at Juneau. But it specialized in historical and government material and, for readers, wasn't the same as being able to browse a library shelf or bookstore for a good read. George Smith, who oversees the $265,000 state grant that pays for the service's postage and library staff, says the service was transferred 10 years ago to the public libraries at Juneau, Fairbanks and Anchorage to give readers a chance at more contemporary collections. Only a fraction of the estimated 40,000 people who live in rural Alaska are signed up for books by maiL One of them is writer Janice cabSchofield. From her in in the Rocky River Valley near Homer, Schofield began a study of grasses and flowers and was inspired to write a book on Alaska's native plants. Her reference guides were almost exclusively library books delivered by mail plane and left for her at a remote mail shed on Kantishna Bay. like "It was always great having this little goody box coming in the mail," she says. To fetch the books, Schofield and her husband, Edward, hiked or skied to their car, drove to the end of the road, and then hiked or to reach skied another half-mil- e the shed. There the books went into backpacks and the Schofields made their way back out "Discovering Wild Plants, published last year by Northwest Discovery Publications, was the first book she ever researched by mail, letting the library know generally what she needed and then waiting to see what turned up. Most people in toe bush want popular fiction, children's books n, Smith and popular says. "They teH us what they want either they give us titles or they one-roo- m non-fictio- much media attention in the last 10 years, with television devoting prime time programs to it and . the death rate patterns reported by the CDC are consistent Sun said with those documented in England, , Norway, Australia and Canada. national magazines featuring Alzheimer's on cover stories. Federal funding for research on Alzheimer's and related disorders rose from $3.9 million in 1976 to $53.9 million in 1986, the Atlanta-base- d CDC reported. Sun said that in recent years, doctors in some cases may have 1970s. Doctors then, Sun said, "realized process of aging. There was something different about people with 'Fly and drop libraries' make Alaska accessible By ROSANNE PAGANO changed a diagnosis from senility to Alzheimer's as they began paying more attention to the latter. , Alzheimer disease. The increase in the death rates for Alzheimer's disease came at the same time that rates for other such as leading causes of death heart ailments, stroke, liver diseases and hardening of the arteries were going down, he said. (Fill and then just specify a subject we choose the collections," he says. Joe Delia, who says hell often rise at 3 am to finish a Louis L Amour novel or maybe a spy thriller by Robert Ludlum, has been a patron of the bush library service for at least 20 years, longer than almost anyone else. Once in a while, he says, hell open a fresh sack of six or 10 books only to find he's already read them. "The more I read the more I want to read," says Delia, 59. "When we had nothing to read in the trap line cabins and this is no joke we'd read the labels on cans. "I used to be able to tell you all the uigredi"fi!s tx. a can of Carnation milk. I didn't pronounce it all correctly, but I knew them." In Juneau or Fairbanks or Anchorage, where a computer helps track the book requests, librarians too can follow a family's progress by the books they want After a few years of being a family's personal library workers get Christmas cards or friendly notes. Free hearing screening offered monthly by clinical audiologists. 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