My mother was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimers at about 62. It actualy beganh earlyier than that at about 60. She began forgeting calculations, and computer knowlage. Then she lost the abilty to read and write, then drive. Then what could have been Normal Pressure Hydrocefalis (spelling?), she had a shunt put into the base of her brain in order to help her to regain her motor skills, did not work after 4 or 5 adjustments. She lost i'd say over %90 of her motor skills. She became an invalid, and spent the last 9 months of her life in a nursing home in North Carolina. She was burried in Akron, Ohio.