Alzheimer’s Association holds education conference at Bush Convention Center [Video]

The annual education conference provides strategies for caregivers, friends and families that are impacted by Alzheimer’s and other dementia related diseases. 

According to the Alzheimer’s Association, nearly 7 million Americans 65 and older are living with Alzheimer’s disease. In Texas alone, there are more than 459,000 people living with the disease.   

However, the Alzheimer’s Association said they’ve noticed that younger people usually don’t seem too concerned about Alzheimer’s. 

“The number one issue that we’re facing is that common misperception of people thinking Alzheimer’s is related to just to senility or old age, not anymore. We have diagnosis as young as 47 years old, people in their 40s, …