Lon Schneider: Early prevention of Alzheimer’s disease

"Alzheimer's disease, a devastating disease that affects the cells of the brain, is now regarded as the major form of old age “senility,” said President Ronald Reagan in 1983, as he designated November as National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness month. "Because there is an association of dementia with aging and because Americans are living longer, the numbers affected by this disease will continue to grow,” he added. A decade later Reagan was diagnosed with the disease and November ...