Stress of poverty, racism raise risk of Alzheimers for African-Americans, new research suggests

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2. I know this is totally anecdotal. But I have never known any elderly black person with

Alzheimers. I have known people with mild dementia or memory loss. I guess maybe I don't know the precise definition of Alzheimers. But the old people I have known with what I consider Alzheimers have all been old and not so old white people. And what I think of when I think alzheimer's is when people can't recognize loved ones, places they are etc.

Like I said this is just my experience. I am black. And most of the people in my maternal side lived to be in their 80s and 90s.so I have interacted with a lot of elderly black people. And I don't feel like arguing about this so no need for links or whatever saying I am wrong. Just sharing my own experience.