One in three seniors dies with alzheimer's/dementia, but you don't have to be a senior to develop alz. My mom got sick before I turned 18 - it was the year she turned 50. It was a shock, there was no family history of dementia.
Her disease progressed rapidly - she was diagnosed with early onset frontal variant atypical alzheimer's disease. She was 55 when she died. This July 20th, she would have been 58.
We need a world without Alzheimer's and all other dementia, and that can only happen with further research.
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