Dementia & Alzheimer’s

Julie Zissimopoulos has spent years tracking what dementia actually costs the country, not the number insurers see, but the real one. Her latest figure, published this year through the Alzheimer’s Association, puts the total at $818 billion in 2026. That…

For a disease that’s been studied for more than a century, Alzheimer’s still keeps one basic question stubbornly half answered: what actually kills a neuron. Toxic proteins pile up inside brain cells, that part researchers have known for decades. What…