Sponsored by Legislator Edward A. Rath III, R - Williamsville, the law creates a plan to expedite search efforts for missing Alzheimer's patients or individuals with other dementia related illnesses. (www2.erie.gov)
The local law, which was created to expedite search efforts for missing Alzheimer's patients or individuals with other dementia related illnesses, was passed in November 2010. (www2.erie.gov)
While they don't have definite answers, besides having good genes, Kawas said, the answer is probably a combination of being resilient to Alzheimer's Disease and also that they did not develop other dementia - causing conditions, such as microscopic infarctions that occur when blood flow is blocked from certain regions of the brain and hippocampal sclerosis, which causes neuron loss. (aaas.org)