Open Door - Alzheimers

The thing about early-onset Alzheimer's is that it hits people — well, in our case, when we were in our 50s. And it's the time when you're paying off the mortgage, when you're saving for your retirement, and of course, we were hit straight away with losing one of our two incomes.

– Ron Clark on early onset Alzheimer's disease

Brenda had seen our picture in the Central Leader, 'You poor thing, oh what a terrible thing. You know what's going to happen, don't you? He'll get lost and he won't know you one day,' and all this. I just said, 'Look, I'll cross my bridges when I come to them.'

– Mariam Marsden on dealing with the reactions to her husbands diagnosis

There are over 30,000 people affected by Dementia and Alzheimer's disease. We don't know exactly how many of those are Alzheimer's because, in the final analysis, you can only really tell if you took a little biopsy of the brain.

– Neurologist Richard Faull on dementia and Alzheimer's disease

Certainly, from my point of view, the roofs caved in. The last couple of years have been difficult.

– Ron Clark on dealing with his wife's Alzheimer's diagnosis

I was in a very senior job and suddenly realised that I was writing down more things than I should have been, and I thought, 'what the hell is this all about?' It would have been the beginning of memory loss.

– Kate Clake on the first symptoms she noticed in herself of Alzheimer's disease