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Maria Shriver on Turning the Bad into Good

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Alsheimers - Your Dad Was Diagnosed With Alsheimers in Two Thousand and Three.

Your dad was diagnosed with alsheimers in two thousand and three. Ever since, you have continued fighting for increasing research into the disease. Women are two thirds of those who get al sheimer's. And that fact wasn't even a part of the narrative. So i'm really proud of the shreiver report that put that on the map for the very first time. I kept hearing from more and more women saying, i'm taking care of my mother. My mo has all teimers. When i would go to all the doctors and research places, they're like, nineer now. It's not true. You've started the women's alsheimERS movement

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