article_snippet: This rare, inherited, or 'familial' form of Alzheimer's disease has also left his 43-year-old brother, Tony, bedbound in a care home and being fed through a tube.
article_snippet: I also lost a cousin, Thelma's daughter, at 41, and a granddad, Dad's father, at 46 to early-onset Alzheimer's disease.'
article_snippet: This rare, inherited, or 'familial' form of Alzheimerhas also left his 43-year-old brother, Tony (pictured with his son), bedbound in a care home and being fed through a tube .
article_snippet: Early onset Alzheimer's tends to cluster within families, sometimes with several generations affected, in which case it is called familial disease.
article_snippet: Someone who has two or more close relatives (a parent, brother or sister) who developed Alzheimer's disease before the age of 60, is advised to ask Someone who has two or more close relatives (a parent, brother or sister) who developed Alzheimer's disease before the age of 60 GP about genetic testing and counselling for these rare mutations, who can also refer patients to a geneticist, if appropriate.
highlights_snippet: Disease has claimed the lives of four other close family members .
  