Age relation

Today I am looking to find out how young a person can be to be affected by this terrible disease. The initial research and information states that Alzheimer’s is a disease purely for those in the later stages of the aging process. But if it is a disease that starts in the then why couldn’t it develop in younger years? According to the Alzheimer’s association “Alzheimer's is not just a disease of old age. Younger-onset (also known as early-onset) Alzheimer's affects people younger than age 65.  Nearly 4 percent of the more than 5 million Americans with Alzheimer’s have younger-onset.” Alzheimer’s can happen as young as age 30 to anyone. Scientists have found several very rare genes that can directly cause Alzheimer’s in the younger ages. This separate strand of Alzheimer’s is known as “familiar Alzheimer’s disease” which does effect multiple generations in a family.

http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_early_onset.asp