article_snippet: Witnessing Alzheimer's progress on the big screen is as terrifying as it is in real life.
article_snippet: I know, because I'm a child of Alzheimer's.
article_snippet: But my family and I watched Alzheimer's erase that brain -- slowly, inexorably, completely.
article_snippet: It was terrifying, too, because back then, early-onset Alzheimer's disease was surrounded by shame and silence.
article_snippet: Alzheimer's still carries a stigma of the unknown -- even though today more than 5 million Americans have it.
article_snippet: Every 67 seconds, another one of us develops Alzheimer's.
article_snippet: With 10,000 baby boomers turning 65 every day, there will be 13.5 million of us with Alzheimer's by 2050.
article_snippet: And many people don't understand that Alzheimer's isn't a natural part of aging.
article_snippet: Alzheimer's is a disease that kills.
article_snippet: Alzheimer's is exerting a powerful impact on American families -- on our health, our finances, and our futures.
article_snippet: Is there an Alzheimer's connection with depression or with diabetes?
article_snippet: Yet, as the Alzheimer's Association tells us, "the costs to all payers for the care of people living with an Alzheimer's disease and other dementias will total an estimated $226 billion, with Medicare and Medicaid paying 68 percent of the costs.
article_snippet: So Wipe Out Alzheimer's is stepping in.
article_snippet: What's the difference between normal forgetfulness, dementia and an Alzheimer's disease?
article_snippet: Can brain games or meditation slow cognitive decline?
article_snippet: Local brain trust groups will also learn about the devastatingly high cost of an Alzheimer's -- how neither Medicare nor the Affordable Care Act covers long-term care, and the cost of a semiprivate nursing home room averages more than $80,000 a year.
article_snippet: It's time for the narrative around an Alzheimer's to change.
article_snippet: We want to do the same with an Alzheimer's.
article_snippet: We used to think that the mysterious condition called an Alzheimer's disease happened only to folks in their 80s and 90s.