Hope for Patients with Early Alzheimer’s Disease and Their Family Members

Hope for Patients with Early Alzheimer’s Disease and Their Family Members By Kathleen Hoffman, PhD, MSPH Losing who you are is essentially what the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease means. An irreversible and progressive brain disorder, it is the sixth leading cause of death, affecting over 6 million people in the US.1 The disease profoundly impacts those who are diagnosed as well as their loved ones: I am writing today because I'm having a hard time accepting my husband's diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease. He is only [age] and has no family history of the disease. . . They [...]