Effective treatments for Alzheimer’s disease are tantalizingly within our grasp. Unfortunately, however, while the number of Alzheimer cases has continued to climb, funding has been flat over the past five years and research is underfunded. For every dollar the federal government spends today on the costs of Alzheimer care, it invests less than a penny in research to find a cure.  → 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

I was calm when I heard the diagnosis from the staff sitting around the table at the University of California, San Diego, Alzheimer’s Center. It was no surprise. My husband Ben was a very healthy 84-year-old in 2005, but his mind had been slipping away for several years. In the back of my own mind, I dread what lay ahead.  → 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