When we think of someone with Alzheimer's, what comes to mind is usually an elderly person diagnosed with dementia in the later stages of life - but there's a reality that's challenging our perception of the disease: cases that are diagnosed in people under 50. While it does most frequently affect older adults, and early-onset Alzheimer's is the designation for people diagnosed under 65 years of age, experts point out that symptoms can begin much earlier. When it affects younger people, it causes a different kind of seismic impact on life plans, relationships and family dynamics; if someone has years, or even decades, to go before retirement, an Alzheimer's diagnosis is more likely to have an even greater impact on the patient's work and social life.

"Alzheimer's disease is the most

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