A historian challenges a labor-history fable. Timothy Messer-Kruse doesnât remember her name, but the question she asked in his college classroom a dozen years ago changed his career â and now it may revolutionize everything historians thought they knew about a hallowed event in the imagination of the American Left.
Though the effects of the disease are similar, there are two main types. 1  Early-onset Alzheimer's. This type happens to people who are younger than age 65. 2  Late-onset Alzheimer's. This is the most common form of the disease, which happens to people age 65 and older.
Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimerâs disease is the most common type of dementia. Between 60 and 80 percent of cases of dementia are caused by this disease, according to the Alzheimerâs Association. Early signs of Alzheimerâs disease include depression and forgetting names and recent events. Alzheimerâs causes brain cells to die.