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I wrote about losing my wife to younger-onset Alzheimer’s. This is what helped me feel less alone
Earlier this year, I recounted in the magazine ([link removed]) the journey of my wife, Laurie, through what’s called younger-onset Alzheimer’s — when the disease strikes someone under 65 — a journey that began with her diagnosis at age 56 and ended seven years later with her death, in March 2019.

People who had also lost loved ones to dementia wrote to me in droves, showing me the importance of community. The fear, heartbreak, and even despair they described reminded me of my own reactions as, bit by bit, Alzheimer’s took my wife. But in an odd way, hearing from them was gratifying, too.

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A DNA mystery: A woman was supposed to get Alzheimer’s by 50. Why didn’t she? ([link removed])
Mass General's Yakeel Quiroz has spent more than two decades studying an extended Colombian family with a genetic mutation that causes a younger-onset version of the disease. Read the story. ([link removed])
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