“What a lot of people don’t realize is Alzheimer’s is downhill all the way , no stopping. There is no hope of recovery.”
As far as I know no patient with Alzheimer’s has ever seen a spontaneous remission, or an effective drug treatment of any kind. As you indicated there is no cure and at this time no hope. Dr’s still have no idea what causes the calcium deposits to form on the brain and is present in Alzheimer’s patients who have been autopsied.
Last I knew there is even today no definitive test to tell if a dementia patient has Alzheimer with the only sure way being an autopsy.
About 7 years ago my wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer's at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Two doctors agreed after doing some talking to her, and having her perform some basic tests.
They said they would not positively conclude it was Alzheimers until they looked at her white plane brain scan.
They sat me down and showed me on a computer a normal brain and the start of Alzheimer's on another brain, which showed white edges starting to form around the brain, and the brain pulling away from the skull.
When my wife's brain scan came back it was identical to the early onset Alzheimer's brain scan I had been shown.
I would bet right now ,that scan would show white in the back lobe; as her recent memory is gone.
I will give those Doctors credit as they did not offer any false hope of a stoppage or recovery from Alzheimer's.-Tom