[OKSooner]

" the Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases at the Brigham."

Already skeptical, that's as far as one needs to read.

I'll take my chances and consider myself ahead of the game. Should one get alzheimers, one's inclination would be to just deal with it.

[Gay State Conservative]

I worked for MG/Brigham for 20+ years.Many "civilians" don't know it but more research money (public and private) flows into Boston than into any other city on earth. It's not a coincidence that people fly to Boston from every point on the globe for health care.

Just FYI...all someone as to do at a major hospital *anywhere* in this country is to give enough $$$ and a wastebasket...a lounge...a department...or a wing can be named after him or her.

A case in point: the Dana Farber Cancer Institute is seen by many in medicine as being the finest cancer treatment (and research) center in the world. It started "life" as the Sidney Farber Cancer Institute,Dr Sidney Farber having been one its founding physicians. But then along came the Dana family,promising $$$ for a major expansion,and the rest is history.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“Should one get alzheimers, one’s inclination would be to just deal with it. “

You don’t “just deal with it”.
It’s a horrific disease and a terrible way to go .
If a treatment can prevent it or control the symptoms that’s a huge advance forward .