Patients with Alzheimer’s are joining their counterparts with cancer and other brain illnesses to lobby the U.S. Congress for more money for treatments and research. Some are beseeching top scientists to push for higher stakes in their research. Alzheimer’s is labeled incurable and leaves the mind a bit like a vegetable. As soon as one carries the label Alzheimer’s, there are people who think that one is a vegetable.
Millions of people are estimated to be living with Alzheimer’s disease although no one knows how many have been diagnosed. Research suggests that as many as half the Alzheimer’s patients may be in the early stages of the disease and not yet diagnosed.
