Nursing homes as research labs for Dementia

The opening statement of the Report entitled  "Nutritional Strategies to Combat Alzheimer's" in  the March 2013 issue of Life Extension Magazine, reads as follows: "Someone in America develops Alzheimer's every 68 seconds. This rate is projected  to more than double by 2053, to one every 33 seconds."  
http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2013/mar2013_Nutritional-Strategies-to-Combat-Alzheimers_01.htm?utm_source=eNewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Archive&utm_content=Magazine&utm_campaign=2013Wk49-1 


 Since we in Canada have  roughly 1/10th the USA population the corresponding rate for Canada should be roughly one tenth that of USA.   In a recent radio and TV announcement, Canadian health officials  outlined the costs  of treating Alzheimer's  from  the current 30 billion annually to over 300 billion within a couple of decades.
 After having read this article, and with my  recent attendance at a nursing home meeting  where the CEO  of that nursing home outlined plans for bed expansion, it occurred to me that nursing homes with their unique resident profile ( compared to patients in  hospitals, or office patients), might be excellent set ups to conduct clinical research.
Actually when I reviewed my blog http://docsamblog.blogspot.ca and went to podcasts  and then clicked on Brain Power, I found a posting where I give some statistics on incidence of dementia, and also my plans for developing this podcast.
 My experience in setting up 3 private medical research Labs- the Winnipeg Clinic Research Institute, and Kildonan Institute of Gerontology, and a private Cytogenetic diagnostic Lab. My  research publishing over  40 scientific papers. Since the mid 1990's as a medical educator using information    gathered  from various websites , like the  life extension foundation, Wellness magazine, A4M, etc., as well as from my library of over 500 volumes, and from my clinical practice of over 30 years with over 20 years at the Holy Family Nursing Home.   This medical education is being  done mainly in the form of keynote presentations, websites and blogs.
Realizing the importance of medical research in 2000 I set up the Semeon Hrushovetz Endowed Fund  at the university of Manitoba which purchases books in the area of gerontology and complementary and/or alternative medicine. Many current investigators, especially those engaged in life extension research discovered the important role of nutrition in aging (e.g. Vitamin D and Alzheimer's). Another area is in the field of searching for biological markers for aging for testing if their antiaging therapies are valid. Many of these studies- especially those related to biological markers of aging, could very easily be conducted at nursing home.
I feel the HFNH with its expansion program provides an excellent opportunity to establish such a unique research center and would be willing to discuss this further with you and/or your building committee
docSam