You're too Young To Have Alzheimer's! (Early Onset discussion)
Channel: Fading Memories Alzheimer's Podcast
Date: 2019-10-15

"Your Dad can't have Alzheimer's, he's so young and good looking!"

Those are the words that Baxley Andresen heard more times than she would have thought possible. Yes, her Dad did have Early Onset Alzheimer's and being good looking didn't protect him from the disease.

Early Onset Alzheimer's is generally diagnosed in people showing symptoms before the age of 65. It can be a shock to everyone involved because it's so unexpected.

Early-onset Alzheimer's is an uncommon form of dementia that strikes people younger than age 65. Of all the people who have Alzheimer's disease, about 5 percent develop symptoms before age 65. So if 4 million Americans have Alzheimer's, at least 200,000 people have the early-onset form of the disease.

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