I saw this on the other forum, wanted to bring it here for those who haven't seen it. This was the NBC Nightly News last night, chief of police with Alzheimer's. If you let it run after the main story, there is some more video of the chief talking about how he realized there was something wrong.

http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-US&brand=msnbc&vid=44742158-b971-43e5-92db-39ed57b954b6

Young guy, too bad he didn't talk about any other family members that may have had an early onset as well.

I saw this on T.V. as well. Good news, gets the word out about ALz. Bad news "Chief Of Police w/Gun, has Alzheimers "AND" his job? "YIKES!"

Wow, great video. But how tragic is that? He seemed like a pretty decent fella, down to earth, and I liked when he said he knows it will be his wife and kids that have the hardest part in this. How true that statement is. It was a very wise thing to do to get an early diagnosis, but I hear a lot that it is very common for people to deny the disease. I wonder if that ususally happens though when the diagnosis is done much later in stages, and by then the "reasoner" is already severely damaged? I know I worry a lot because my husbands family has had a close relative with early onset AD. It was his mom's sister. She did not have children though, so that might have been a blessing. She died in her 60's, and my husband is almost 52, so I tend to watch a bit more than I should for signs! So far, so good!

I just thought it was so perceptive of him to go in and get checked when he started forgetting things. Usually it takes some kind of crisis.

I really do think it is amazing he went and got help, most people are in denial and do a lot to cover up and by the time others notice, the person with dementia is a lot of times beyond getting help, even though there is really not much out there to fight the desease. My mother covered the illness up and my step-dad helped her do it for a number of years and I was clueless as to what was happening until my step-dad went in the NH. It is a heartbreaking.

My brother has mentioned at least 10 times in the past few months how sorry he is that he dismissed my concern about our mom. I started telling him something was wrong a couple of years ago and he would just brush me off. When his wife started saying something to him about it last year, he would get angry with her and tell her to mind her own business.

Sad, that is the reason my husbands brothers and their wives have not had ANY contact with us in 10 months. They are angry because they say the docs diagnosis is wrong, and we say doc is right, and she needs further testing and help. Terrible thing when it divides a family and damages those relationships permanently.