Alzheimer’s is a costly disease.
As the third leading cause of death in the United States, it accounts for nearly $300 billion in health care costs every year. With the number of Alzheimer’s patients expected to nearly triple in the coming decades, that amount is only going to increase.
Perhaps even more costly is the human experience of Alzheimer’s disease. Patients have to endure the slipping away of their own memories, their own selves. Their loved ones, unable to help, can only watch it happen, often acting as caregivers to parents, siblings or spouses who no longer know them.
Andrew Shin, an assistant professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences’ Neurobiology…
