Can young people get alzheimers?

It depends what is your view of young. If you are 20 or 30, no. But there are some reported cases of people in mid 40 getting it. You can’t stop it. It strikes graduatly, and it is a degenerative disease. So, yes, it is posible , and even more, worldwide doctors say that Alzheimers is its uprising.

Hello there harkins,

As gurule has already said there is basically impossible to get Alzheimer’s disease if you are young, for example in your twenties. This is degenerative disease which has pretty nasty symptoms and unfortunately the exact cause of this condition is still unknown.

It is usually affecting people in their mid-age and there is no pattern to find some common characteristics. Once diagnosed with this condition person needs special care because it is most likely that it will forget most of the things about his or hers life such as address, street number etc.

I presume that someone in your family has been suffering from this condition and that’s why you are afraid of it but it has not been proven that genes have something to do with it.