To cure Alzheimer's, invest in prevention

By Kate Mulgrew, Special to CNN

Editor's note: Kate Mulgrew is a stage, film and television actress who is best known for her TV role in "Star Trek: Voyager." She is currently appearing in the NBC series "Mercy." 

New York (CNN) -- After the Alzheimer's came, my mother could not know how shadows fell across our once ebullient family: our solidarity fractured, our tempers flaring in furious incomprehension, hearts breaking in mute despair.

None of us knew how to watch this woman disappear, her features slowly masked with blankness, her supple body rigid and wooden, her absolute vividness obliterated by the heavy fog of her disease.


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To cure Alzheimer's, invest in prevention