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The number of older people living in this country is ballooning, and by 2030, nearly 14 million people may be living with Alzheimer’s dementia. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls the disease is a public health crisis.

Yet after four decades of research and billions of dollars spent, scientists still don’t know what causes Alzheimer’s, can’t treat it, and don’t even agree on what it is.

Fading Minds: Why There’s Still No Cure for Alzheimer’s

It was reported and produced by Maja Beckstrom and Sasha Aslanian, and edited by Catherine Winter.

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APM Reports documentary, “Fading Minds: Why There’s Still No Cure for Alzheimer’s.” 

In the 1970s, the founder of the National Institute on Aging convinced a nation that senility was really Alzheimer's and could be cured. Research money flowed to one theory â and alternatives remained unexamined.

APM Reports documentary explores why there's no cure for Alzheimer's.

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