Annual visits with the neurologist are some of the hardest days for me. As a caregiver for my husband, Tony, who was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease in 2015, these appointments are a painful reality check.

Alzheimer’s disease progressively robs a person of their brain function. Eventually, it creates a situation where a person can die from disease complications, often by falls or aspiration pneumonia.

Researchers know that Alzheimer’s disease causes cell death and tissue loss in the brain, but they aren’t exactly sure how. However, plaques and tangles are the prime suspects, according to the Alzheimer’s Association.

As Alzheimer’s disease progresses, so do those plaques and tangles, and they spread through the cortex of the brain in a predictable way. Of course, every bra

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