Clarence Jones

issue that's going to affect us one way or another economically right right you know what i mean and that's that's the one thing that sometimes we don't we don't talk about but it's true i mean in families where you have these issues i mean it could hinder families from working

you know, or, you know, or it could hinder families who don't have insurance, you know, I mean, and if you let it go long enough, then all of a sudden it still becomes an economic issue because sometimes you have to take care of it.

You know what I mean?

So I think that part of, I mean, part of it, we never lose the humanity in talking about this topic, but you also, I think we also have to be honest that this is a, this is a very, very important issue for us, uh, individually, as well as, as, uh,

as a group?

I think the thing that we talk about is hypertension and stress.

Those are higher in those populations.

I think when we get to this kind of conversations, we don't have to be timid about it.

There are just some real factors that are there in these communities.

There's higher rates of stress, there's higher rates of hypertension, higher chronic diseases, and all of these things impact Alzheimer's.

It's a fact and not necessarily so much an emotional thing.

Yeah, yeah.

um you know of a community that really speaks to the pulse of that community and has a better idea of what's going to work in a community exactly and you know someone in another state somewhere yeah you know what i think i think you know one of the things when it when it comes to this kind of thing about you know we talk about different groups even within groups there are also other groups subgroups and i mean um you can do things even regionally there's a there could be a difference in terms of how people

handle things, you know what I mean?

And so a lot of times when we throw out a word, people automatically assume that it's just those people, but it's also us, you know, because a poor family might handle this topic a whole lot differently than a rich family will.

yeah you know what i'm saying i mean economics economic i mean so i think that part of what what what has to be considered is the fact that all of us are going to be impacted by this just as your your your uh your comment a little bit earlier about uh quoting it's going to happen to us i mean so we need to be aware of the importance of us addressing the issue

even though it may not affect you the same way it will affect somebody else.

So that's what I'm hoping that we do.

As Barry was saying with Health Chatters, at least we enter the conversation to talk about it

and do something.