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More than Simple Forgetfulness.
Do you ever leave the house and wonder if you remembered to turn off the iron or the water? All people experience this occasional absentmindedness, but for some it is the beginning of the loss of their minds — and a long, wasting death. In November 1989 researchers at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital found that more than 10 percent of people sixty-five years old and older, and nearly half of those older than eighty-five, suffered from "probable" Alzheimer's disease. This new information almost doubled previous estimates, raising the number to as many as 4 million victims nationwide. With predictions of 14 million victims by the year 2050, Alzheimer's was becoming "one of the biggest public health dilemmas we've ever encountered," according to the National Institute on Aging's deputy director, Gene Cohen. Before 1980 many Americans had never heard of Alzheimer's disease, described by some as...
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