Inside the Dementia Epidemic: A Daughter's Memoir

by Martha Stettinius

ADL’s, “activities of daily living,”

People with cold sores, from the herpes virus HSVI, are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s.

people with Type II diabetes are twice as likely as those without diabetes to develop Alzheimer’s.

Being overweight or obese, or having a lot of belly fat in middle age (as I do, and my mother did), are often related to insulin resistance and increase the risk of dementia.