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Alzheimer’s Research Showing Promise

Originally posted 2019-01-11 13:50:57. GREENVILLE, NC (WITN) You may know someone with alzheimer’s disease, or other forms of dementia. Millions of Americans are living with alzheimer’s, and that number is expected to keep rising. But researchers right here in the east are working to change that and what they’re doing at the Wooten Lab at ECU could lead to a cure. At 93 there’s no doubt Doris Gardner has lived a full life. Pictures from…

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If I get dementia

● If I get dementia, I want my friends and family to embrace my reality. If I think my spouse is still alive, or if I think we’re visiting my parents for dinner, let me believe those things. I’ll be much happier for it.● If I get dementia, don’t argue with me about what is true for me versus what is true for you.● If I get dementia, and I am not sure who you…

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