Housecall for Health: Early Onset Alzheimer’s

A rarer form of Alzheimer’s is affecting people at a younger age, even a famous college basketball coach.

FOX’s Karlie Pouliot reports in today’s “Housecall for Health”:

Alzheimer’s afflicts nearly half of people 85 and older, but it’s not just the elderly who face this bleak diagnosis.

It also affects 5% of people 65 and under, including legendary University of Tennessee Women’s Basketball Coach Pat Summitt. �The 59-year-old said she’s been diagnosed with early onset dementia, which is an uncommon form of the disease that begins in middle age. �This type also tends to run in families, with many people having a parent or grandparent who developed Alzheimer’s at a younger age.

Housecall for Health, I’m Karlie Pouliot, FOX News Radio.