Being quite familiar with the heart ache and dilemmas faced by the many people we’ve helped find the best senior living option in a Memory Care Unit or Alzheimer’s Unit and the concerns of their family members, we’d like to do our part in spreading the word about the Alzheimer’s Prevention Initiative prevention studies coming up.

The Initiative is an exciting collaborative of researchers launching a new era of Alzheimer’s prevention research. Some of their studies will seek people who carry rare genetic mutations that cause Alzheimer’s to strike early in life, other studies will need to screen thousands of people to find several hundred with the major risk factors for Alzheimer’s.

These initial trials are meant to encourage other investigators throughout academia and industry in the U.S. and abroad to offer additional therapeutic trials to people who have Alzheimer’s but do not show any symptoms yet. And the goal is to inspire a wave of therapy research for this stage of the disease so that preventative medicines might be developed.

This cutting edge of innovation in Alzheimer’s clinical research is exciting because it may be our best bet in finding ways to stop the devastation of Alzheimer’s. We encourage you to join the Alzheimer’s Prevention Initiation registry, then share the news with your friends and family word of mouth or through Facebook or Twitter. You may even offer to be a part of one of the studies. The more people who help, the faster we will get to a treatment that delays Alzheimer’s or even prevents it entirely.

~ Excerpts from the Alzheimer’s Prevention Bulletin, Alzforum, in order to help spread the word.