Alzheimer's Disease

Alzheimer's Disease: Survivor or Victim? is a comprehensive study of the ever-evolving effect Alzheimer's Disease has on both a societal and personal scale. Approximately five million Americans are afflicted each year. Over the next twenty-five years the largest segment of society will be over the age of eighty five, the ramifications are likely to be enormous. Citing numerous risk factors including heredity and lifestyle, the author puts for the an impressive array of findings that could lead to encouraging future clinical results. A case study of former President Ronald Reagan, perhaps the world's most well-known sufferer of the disease, aids putting a human face on the cold, hard, statistical facts pertaining to the disease.