Healthy Conversation: Alzheimer’s Disease

· Nov. 22, 2013, 8:36 am

The Centers for Disease Control says Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia among older adults.  KRCC's Andrea Chalfin is joined this month by Major Douglas Langford, a neurologist at Fort Carson.  They start by defining what Alzheimer’s is and how it’s different from other forms of dementia, or even just getting older. 

For more information:

Centers for Disease Control: Alzheimer's DiseaseAlzheimer's Association 

 (This conversation was edited by Jake Brownell.)

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