Children of Alzheimer’s sufferers want to know their risk
CNN
Greg was a teenager when his grandfather told him and his brother, with increasing anger and frustration, “Dean, get out there and milk the cows!”
There were indeed cows at his grandparents’ farm, but Dean — Greg’s uncle — wasn’t there, and the grandchildren weren’t supposed to be milking them.
“The confusion or the memory loss of Alzheimer’s — now as I look back, it’s like, that’s what was going on,” said Greg, 39, a marketing representative in Denver, Colorado. His grandfather died from Alzheimer’s complications, and now his mother has it at 65. “It’s saddening and disheartening to watch someone you love disappear like that,” he said.
Greg is one of many children of the 5.3 million people living with Alzheimer’s in the United States who face the terrifying possibility of inheriting a predisposition to the disease. Now that there are tests in the works for early detection of brain injury due to Alzheimer’s, as well as other biological markers of the disease, the question becomes: Would you want to know?
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Posted on July 16, 2010 | No Comments | Category: Alzheimer's | Tags: Alzheimer's
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