Today, the Alzheimer’s Association released their follow-up findings to The Shriver Report’s groundbreaking 2010 study, A Woman’s Nation Takes on Alzheimer’s, and the results are staggering. According to the 2014 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures, women over the age of 65 are twice as likely to develop the disease of the brain as they are at risk of suffering from breast cancer.  → Read More

We felt powerless, and we were powerless. Though I was a United States Senator, though I could get the highest levels of the National Institutes of Health on the phone, though I could have a Nobel Prize-winner from Johns Hopkins return my call, I could not help my father. No one knew how to slow or stop the course of this terrible disease.  → Read More

The disease took her mind away. She never really understood I was becoming a professional player and what that meant. She never understood that she didn’t have to buy me clothes anymore and put them on layaway. I don’t even know if she understood that I owe my life and success to her.  → Read More

Today, she would be diagnosed with younger-onset Alzheimer’s disease, since she was only in her 50s. But this was the 1970s. We didn’t know then what we know now. Very few people had heard of Alzheimer’s disease, and it was often misdiagnosed. Patients would be over-medicated and some even sent to mental institutions.  → Read More