Although there have been warnings that it was coming for years, the Alzheimer's epidemic is here now and millions more families will be touched by this progressive - and ultimately fatal - disease unless its course can be altered.

People do not realize that Alzheimer's is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease and staggering amounts of people develop Alzheimer's every day.

I just don't have a gully in front of my house to take it away. I'm more optimistic this will work than my neighbors (are optimistic).

When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.

We've been in the same house since 1960, so we've been here for 45 years now.

Alzheimer's is a disease for which there is no effective treatment whatsoever. To be clear, there is no pharmaceutical agent, no magic pill that a doctor can prescribe that will have any significant effect on the progressive downhill course of this disease.