article_snippet: Women in their 60s are about twice as likely to develop Alzheimer's as breast cancer.
article_snippet: Back in 2010, when our published "The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Takes on Alzheimer's," our reported that women were more than half the individuals diagnosed with Alzheimer's and nearly two-thirds of the unpaid caregivers of those who had it.
article_snippet: Today nearly two-thirds of those with Alzheimer's are women -- that's more than 3.2 million women.
article_snippet: And more than 60% of caregivers for people with Alzheimer's and dementia are women, with many having to reduce women own workload or even drop out of the workforce altogether to care for loved ones.
article_snippet: Why is the incidence of Alzheimer's higher for women?
article_snippet: And why is it that women in their 60s are so much more likely to get Alzheimer's than breast cancer?
highlights_snippet: Maria Shriver's father was stricken by Alzheimer's, a growing scourge in U.S.
  Women are disproportionately affected as sufferers and caregivers, Maria Shriver's father says .
  