Last Friday, my 26-year-old son, John Cronin, traveled to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston to enroll in a medical research study examining the connection between people with Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease.
John enrolled in this study to do his part for people with Down syndrome and to help change what is a dire outlook for himself and people with Down syndrome.
Nearly Every Adult With Down Syndrome Will Develop Alzheimer’s Disease A person with Down syndrome, a person like John, has a 95 percent chance of developing Alzheimer’s disease by age 65.
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