RE: The Latin American Report # 210
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While little else in your report is a font of hope, it springs from your discussion of Cuban Alzheimer's treatment, Cneuro 201. My beloved mother was affected by dementia for decades, and the effects caused her great distress. My familiarity with the difficulties she faced as a result cause me to greatly fear it could happen to me, and every time I struggle for the right word, spelling, or forget an appointment, that fear surges and demoralizes me. Success at treating Alzheimer's patients would likely be an extraordinary source of income for Cuba, and I hope that success is swift, certain, and robust.
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My family has also suffered a lot from dementia. First with my grandfather, a great man who apparently was dragged into that state by the great economic crisis after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and then with my grandmother, as a consequence of her loss of vision. Now I am very concerned about my mother, who lives with my grandmother all the time, a dynamic related to the so-called caregiver stress syndrome. It hurts me very much when she herself tells me about her fears in this regard, and so she has told me about these studies with great interest. Hopefully, this or any other effort to improve the ability of human beings to cope with this disease will come to fruition. Thank you for this feedback.