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volunteer for research studies. Take Lindsay, who asked that we use only her first name in order to frankly discuss her family's medical history. Lindsay's father was diagnosed with Alzheimer
families with these kinds of gene mutations who have volunteered as research subjects over the past two decades.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/3844x3844+729+0/resize/100/quality/85/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Ff1%2Fc8%2F0daf553f4d29bdac3ec389d30e71%2Fnpr-alzheimers-juandiegoreyes.jpg)](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/07/nx-s1-5759696/early-alzheimers-families-network-risk) ### [Science](https://www.npr.org/sections/science/) ### [Studying these young Alzheimer
studies, involving 20,342 volunteers, of drugs that remove amyloid from the brain. Overall, they concluded the approach does slow Alzheimer's disease, but not by enough to make a meaningful difference to patients
family moved into a house with an annexe so her father could live as independently as possible while being cared for by both her and his carer, Linda. "She made it possible