Researchers at Rutgers-Newark are sounding the alarm after they found a shockingly high number of people in the Newark area suffering from memory decline and symptoms of dementia. “This is in many ways a three-alarm dementia crisis,” said Mark Gluck, director of the Aging & Brain Health Alliance at Rutgers-Newark. The screening results suggest there’s a greater need for dementia care in New Jersey, at least among the state’s low-income Black residents. “A lot of dementia care is just very labor-intensive and not highly reimbursed,” Gluck said. “So that's been why all these hospital systems in the past have been reluctant to build out dementia care even though it's needed.”