Fighting for clarity: controversy over cognitive decline

For those with an Alzheimer’s diagnosis, the future may seem to be a downhill fight for mental clarity, but new research is suggesting it doesn’t have to be that way. Inn. ALEXANDRIA RANDOLPH MURRELL | DISPATCH RECORD
For those with an Alzheimer’s diagnosis, the future may seem to be a downhill fight for mental clarity, but new research is suggesting it doesn’t have to be that way. Inn. ALEXANDRIA RANDOLPH MURRELL | DISPATCH RECORD

I’m about to state something that you may find disturbing. I lost my grandfather to a tragic airplane accident, and that still wasn’t as awful as watching my grandmother die from Alzheimer’s disease.

Alzheimer’s is one of the ugliest things I have ever witnessed happen to a person. I watched my grandmother waste away for years under the dramatic deterioration of Alzheimer’s. It changed her personal…