‘Youngest ever’ Alzheimer’s patient diagnosed

RESEARCHERS have described what they claim is the world’s youngest Alzheimer’s patient, a 19-year-old in Beijing, as an “intriguing” discovery that could shed light on the evolution of the disease that mostly affects the elderly.

The young patient first experienced difficulties concentrating when he was 17 and began to struggle with short-term memory loss, such as the inability to recall the previous days’ events or where he had left personal belongings, according to a study published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, an international peer-reviewed journal.