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An estimated 2,000 people with dementia live in Flathead County, overwhelming the region's scarce resources and shrinking workforce as the baby boomer generation continues to age.

Karen Sue is one of roughly 2,000 Flathead County residents who is suffering from dementia out of a total population of 22,000 people over age 65. Statewide, there were 21,000 Montana residents over age 65 living with Alzheimer’s while there are nearly 7 million nationwide, according to recent Alzheimer’s Association data.  As baby boomers age and Americans live longer than previous generations, the elderly population will continue to grow and overwhelm many local resources, which includes nursing homes and memory care facilities. The projected volume of people who will develop dementia each year will double over the next three decades, according to a recent Nature Medicine study.
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Montana’s environmental regulator has denied a petition to designate the Big Hole River as impaired by nitrogen and phosphorus, throwing a wrench in environmentalists’ efforts to put the blue-ribbon fishery on a “pollution diet.”

Upper Missouri Waterkeeper and the Big Hole River Foundation contend that excess nutrients are creating regular summertime algal blooms that can stretch for more than a mile, robbing fish and the macroinvertebrate bugs they eat of the oxygen they need to thrive. The groups argue in the petition they sent to the Montana Department of Environmental Quality last month that an impairment designation would direct the agency to identify and work to reduce the river’s pollution sources in an effort to rebalance the river’s aquatic ecosystem.Common sources of nutrient pollution include runoff containing fertilizers, insecticides and herbicides as well as poorly maintained septic systems and livestock manure.