The Independent | How dementia is changing me: My battle with an ever-shifting identity The Independent For my 61st birthday, in 2010, I was given the diagnosis of microvascular disease, after Alzheimer's, the second leading cause of dementia. I was – as my rather blunt neurologist put it – already “dementing”. Insofar as I had thought about dementia ... Alzheimer's disease could be as much about lifestyle as aging LeBlanc: Are you prepared for the possibility of alzheimer's? |