One of the most difficult things one can experience in life is for their spouse or partner to be given a diagnosis of a dementia-related disease. Alzheimer’s, vascular dementia, and other disorders can seem to rob you of you a lifelong partner and force you to have to undergo the painful and often stressful transition from a partnership to one where you are a caregiver for someone who can grow more distant with time.
Every year, the ranks of those suffering from Alzheimer’s disease continues to grow, and new research may have identified a major risk factor for the disease that doctors had not considered before: physical frailty.