As our population gets more older people, there will be a lot more of this.
God bless those going through this kind of torture.
Nobody wants our loved ones to lose their minds and to forget their whole past lives.
Very sad, a family tragedy for whoever goes through this.
Fortunately they are marching toward prevention and cure for this disease daily. Drugs are showing progress not only in halting the progress of this disease, but some are showing the ability to reverse it.
The big hurdle as I understand it was developing drugs that could cross the brain blood barrier. This event finally occured a year or two ago, and researchers were able to get chemicals into the brain and latch onto the plaque thats build up in the brain causes this disease.
I recall reading about some preliminary tests of a new drug within the last year that tests have shown not only prevented the disease from getting worse, but had some evidence of removing the plaque that had already built up in labarotory animals I believe.
This disease is terrible, but it does appear we are on our way to conquering it. Time will tell.