Re: NEWS: BBC: Alzheimer's: A disease of the young?

[janet paterson <janet313@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi all

At 22:14 2000/11/13 -0500, mary ann wrote:
>This article struck a responsive cord.  A nurse friend of
>mine who works for Hospice told me about a 51 year old woman
>she had cared for who had recently died of Alzheimers.  From
>diagnosis to death took a mere three years in her case.  This
>rapidly progressing case of Alzheimers was shocking to both
>of us - and we are used to dealing with the disease.
>----- God bless      Mary Ann

hi mary ann

the aspect that caught my eye was that
the incidence of alzheimer's is not thought to be increasing in the young
but is now being recognised and diagnosed more readily
[possibly due to greater public awareness ?]
which makes me wonder what happened to those young-uns
who got alzheimers 20 years ago and maybe weren't diagnosed correctly?

i count my blessings that i am in this generation of parkies

onward with the pd awareness campaigns!


janet

janet paterson, an akinetic rigid subtype parkie
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