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Alzheimer's in the Family
ResumeAnd then, it can hit you. Your own parents, needing help. Losing their grip. Your own odds of following them into Alzheimer's — higher than you'd ever wish.
One in 10 people get Alzheimer's. New research suggests that if both your parents had it, your odds may be one in five. Now the Baby Boom generation and its children are lining up to learn their fate. And science is racing to intervene.
This hour, On Point: going after Alzheimer's.Guests:
Reisa Sperling, neurologist and Alzheimer's researcher at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston
Thomas Bird, Professor of Neurology, Medicine and Psychiatry at the University of Washington
Pierre Tariot, director of the Memory Disorders Clinic at the Banner Alzheimer's Institute in Phoenix
This program aired on March 12, 2008.