Bibliograph

The inheritance, a family on the front lines of the battle against Alzheimer's disease, Niki Kapsambelis

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The inheritance, a family on the front lines of the battle against Alzheimer's disease, Niki Kapsambelis

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-333) and index

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individual biography

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Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The inheritance

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Niki Kapsambelis

Sub title

a family on the front lines of the battle against Alzheimer's disease

Summary

The courageous, hopeful story of the one family who may hold the key to finding a cure for Alzheimer's disease. Every sixty-nine seconds, someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Of the top ten killers, it is the only disease for which there is no cure or treatment. For most people, there is nothing that they can do to fight back. But one family is doing all they can. The DeMoe family has the most devastating form of the disease that there is: early onset Alzheimer's, an inherited genetic mutation that causes the disease in 100 percent of cases, and has a 50 percent chance of being passed onto the next generation. Of the six DeMoe children whose father had it, five have inherited the gene; the sixth, Karla, has inherited responsibility for all of them. But rather than give up in the face of such news, the DeMoes have agreed to spend their precious, abbreviated years as part of a worldwide study that could utterly change the landscape of Alzheimer's research and offers the brightest hope for future treatments and possibly a cure

Target audience

adult

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