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Originally Posted by borjo
Interesting article but it doesn't fit my mom or her 4 sisters, all of whom got Alzheimers. My mom remarried at age 69, was happy and very outgoing. Her sisters were all extroverts but everyone of them got the disease in their mid 80's. Something genetic going on here.
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I, too, feel something genetic might be going on. I have a friend whose family had many members develop the condition, so many in fact, that a medical school was conducting studies on them at one time. At this time, my friend has shown some indication that the potential for the disease exists for her. Seeing your father, uncles, cousins develop dementia would make me take pause.
My father exhibited some signs of the disease in his later years, Mom did not. Do not recall any other family members impacted, but who knows. Many died in their 90's before I was around.