Alzheimer's is not just a disease of old age

 Alzheimer's is not just a disease of old age. As it is a genetic disease, can happen anytime. Approximately 200,000 Americans under the age of 65 have younger-onset Alzheimer’s disease (also known as early-onset Alzheimer’s). The first cases were documented in 1940 by Albert Schweitzer and his wife Martha. 

When he died at 54 years young from complications from diabetes, some suggested that this was what caused his death.  In 1955 another doctor named Paul Lippman performed post-mortem examinations on Dr.-Paul Steinmetz Jr., one half brother to Heinrich Sigmund Gedankenstein who had also been diagnosed with anemia ten months earlier. He showed signs consistent even after receiving several tests suggesting mild clinical dementia including lack for movement between sites such blood sugar changes which would normally indicate normal cellular function.