"It is estimated that six million people in the United States, and thirty-five million people worldwide, currently suffer from Alzheimer’s disease. That number is expected to rise significantly, with a new case of dementia occurring every minute, because, in the nearly hundred and twenty years since Alois #Alzheimer’s finding, no one has figured out how to slow the progression of the disease, let alone prevent it or reverse its damage."

https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-medicine/the-promise-of-a-new-alzheimers-drug