I understand. I too have family members that are afflicted with the disease. Sadly, if the research dollars pumped into disease easily prevented by changes in human behavior, had been used to prevent and/or treat Alzheimer's, great advances would have occurred. More $$ are pumped into studying AIDS than the most important diseases of our time--cardiovascular diseases including stroke, cancer, and Alzheimer's. It is sad when a venereal disease such as AIDS gets all the attention.
With the baby boomers coming of Alzheimer's age - I am hopeful that the real hunt is on for this disease. My father recognized there was something wrong with his memory and he grew very depressed about it. He was the one in the family with all the answers and to watch what the disease did to him was unbearable. The Aids disease is preventable but yet they keep pouring all the money and research into it....instead of as you say, cancer, strokes, etc.