Professor of Medicine and Health Policy, University of Michigan
Dr. Langa is affiliated with the Michigan Alzheimer Disease Research Center.
Dr. Langa’s research focuses on the epidemiology and costs of chronic disease in older adults, with an emphasis on Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. He is currently focusing on the relationship of cardiovascular risk factors to cognitive decline and dementia in middle-age and older adults. In 2007, Dr. Langa was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Institute of Public Health at the University of Cambridge where he established collaborations with an interdisciplinary research team performing cross-national comparisons of the epidemiology and outcomes of dementia in the United States and England.
Why dementia burden may be less than feared
Sep 29, 2016 06:19 am UTC| Health
It is a truism that aging of populations will result in large and potentially unmanageable increases in the number of older adults with dementia. Michael D. Hurd, a senior researcher with RAND, and colleagues estimated...