Cutting Edge: Women with Alzheimer's Is on the Rise! Hope Is Here!

In this presentation, Dr. Bredesen will provide you steps and tools to minimize and prevent Alzheimer's in your own environment.  Did you know that more women get Alzheimer's than breast cancer? Do you know the steps to take to protect yourself and your loved ones? Did you know 65% of adults with Alzheimer's are women and 60% of caregivers are women?   Did you know15+% of women in the US will get Alzheimer's?. Did you know noticeable symptoms can take 20 years to appear.? Do you know what the symptoms are?    Exclusive for Commonwealth Club Members: Post-program Conversation with Speaker After the first part of the program, members are invited to please join us for an intimate private conversation with Dr. Bredesen on Zoom. Club members who register will receive two links—one for the program itself and one for the private members-only post-program conversation with Dr. Bredesen. During that program, members can pose their own questions and delve more deeply into the topic. To become a member, for as little as $10 a month and have full access to all of our programming and podcasts.  Join here. About the Speaker: Dr. Bredesen graduated from Caltech and received his MD from Duke. He served as resident and chief resident in neurology at UCSF, then was a postdoctoral fellow with Nobel laureate Prof. Stanley Prusiner. He was founding president of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging. He is respected worldwide as the first to publish his groundbreaking work on the reversal of cognitive decline in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Bredesen authored three New York Times best sellers, and is currently a professor at UCLA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices