When Dr. Kellyann Niotis began studying neurology, she remembers learning how to manage diseases like Alzheimer’s and dementia. It was the lack of information about how prevent them that I couldn’t understand. “My family has been affected by neurodegenerative diseases, and I have seen countless patients suffer from these diseases,” Niotis, a preventive neurologist and
This essay as told is based on a conversation with Tamara Johnson, 58, who lives in Leesburg, Virginia. Johnson resigned from his corporate leadership position to take care of your husband. Johnson estimates her family has spent more than $700,000 so far caring for her mother and her husband. This interview has been edited for
