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Every 69 mere seconds, someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Of the top 10 killers, it is the only disease that there is absolutely no treat or treatment. For most people, there is little or nothing they can do to fight. But one family is doing all they can. The DeMoe family has the most devastating form of the condition that there surely is: early starting point Alzheimer's, an inherited hereditary mutation that triggers the condition in 100 percent of instances, and has a 50 percent chance of being passed onto another generation. From the six DeMoe children whose dad experienced it, five have inherited the gene; the 6th, Karla, has inherited responsibility for most of them. But rather than quit when confronted with such information, the DeMoes have decided to spend their abbreviated years within a worldwide analysis that could utterly change the panorama of Alzheimer's research and offers the brightest expect future treatments - and perhaps a cure. Drawing from several years of in-depth research with this charming and upbeat family, journalist Niki Kapsambelis explains to the story of Alzheimer's through the humanizing lens of these typical people made incredible by both their bad circumstances and their bravery.
