Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, AD alone composes “an estimated 60 to 80 percent of [dementia] cases.” Furthermore, according to research done by scientists from the Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, located in Chicago, Ill., nearly five million Americans were living with this destructive disease in 2013. In the same paper by Rush Institute researchers, it was projected that by the year 2050 the number of individuals with Alzheimer’s would reach 14 million in the United States.
