Alzheimer's can't wait. Not any longer. More than five million Americans are estimated to have Alzheimer's today. Nearly 15 million family members and friends are unpaid caregivers. The human effects of the disease are devastating. It is progressive, degenerative and fatal. It's killing more people than breast cancer...

February 6, 2011 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of President Ronald Reagan. President Reagan helped to raise public awareness about Alzheimer's disease with the first proclamation of National Alzheimer's Disease Month in November 1983. Eleven years later, he publicly announced his own diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in a...

Today, more than 5 million Americans are estimated to have Alzheimer's disease. What they are experiencing is not just a little memory loss. It is not normal aging. They have a progressive, degenerative, fatal disease for which there is as yet no cure. They and their families will tell you...

As 78 million American baby boomers age, the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease will skyrocket. Economically, it has the potential to bankrupt an already fragile health care system. Socially, we have yet to overcome much of the stigma associated with it. In terms of basic knowledge and research, Alzheimer's is progressive,...