Alzheimer's Long and Costly Goodbye -- Heartache and Hope: America's Alzheimer's Epidemic (Ep. 1)

(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/alzheimers) As Baby Boomers become senior citizens, Alzheimer's Disease and other forms of dementia are on track to reach epidemic proportions, with a new case every 68 seconds and an annual cost of $1.2 trillion projected by 2050. The disease also takes its toll on family members struggling to care for their loved ones, while watching them slowly slip away in what some describe as "the long goodbye."

The first in a series of three programs from UCLA offers an overview of the looming epidemic and illustrates the fear and grief experienced by patients and their loved ones, including Patti Davis, daughter of Ronald Reagan, and TV personality Leeza Gibbons, who lost her mother to Alzheimer's. Series: "Alzheimer's Disease Programs" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 23903]

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[masticina]

You know what is the worst :!

It is so .. breaking off. It isn't a heroic way to die so to say.. you die like a puddle of.. that is so not a nice way to die.

It sound harsh but a heart attack, a deadly fall.. something quick boom done! Not the long slow path to .. to nothing. That is the worst.

Don't fear Death, respect it.. and hope your death comes in a decent way.

[kandisekret]

I'm a licence CNA & I work with people's everyday with Alzheimer's but when it hit home & learned thst my grandmother was in Stage 1 it broke my heart. I had to come to terms with it & understand that it's part of life & as for me being her Granddaughter with nursing licenses I told her I will help you through & take care of you.

[SkyCastle21]

All I believe is that since the creation of synthetic sugars health problems have risen. Second, seniors and overweight individuals are first to be fed these products. Maybe I am wrong, but it is something to consider avoiding in your diet.

[Les Subrick]

Both my dads were extreme alcoholics and then this guy taught me how do do something my dad never taught me to do. We became best friends and we fished, hunted and so on and then he held a kitchen knife to my sisters throat!He told me prison guards knocked him to the ground but he would get his drivers license back but then he passed out at home and was comatosed and died!

[LuViNsP]

wow, the narrators nasaly voice makes this video almost unwatchable.

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[skeet4211]

I feel what those in this video feel, especially Leeza. I lost my father Sept 2012 to this horrible disease. I was his caregiver the last several years of his life.

[Solane Bramhill]

Oh god, this is so horrible...

[riklivez]

fasting has proven to regenerate brain cells and even help hereditary diseases. mainly fasting helps prevent age related diseases.

[Luke Foreman]

WHAT IF THERE WAS A CURE FOR. ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND NO ONE KNEW? A Case Study by Dr. Mary Newport....might want to check this out