The ruthless toll of Alzheimer’s on one Columbian family

The New York Times has an excellent article on the tragic story of Laura Cuartas’s children Alzheimer’s Stalks a Colombian Family

At frighteningly young ages, in their 40s, four of Laura Cuartas’s children began forgetting and falling apart, assaulted by what people here have long called La Bobera, the foolishness. It is a condition attributed, in hushed rumors, to everything from touching a mysterious tree to the revenge of a wronged priest.

It is Alzheimer’s disease, and at 82, Mrs. Cuartas, her gray raisin of a face grave, takes care of three of her afflicted children. link to article

Source: New York Times