''..At any given moment, thousands of trials are taking place all around the
globe, geared toward eradicating Alzheimer’s disease, Lewy body
dementia, frontotemporal dementia,
vascular dementia and all the other dementias, disorders and syndromes
that gradually, inexorably turn once-intact brains into hollowed-out
husks. Each trial usually includes scores of patients, who researchers
call enrollees, and each enrollee has at least one caregiver, and
sometimes two or three. Before the enrolment, and before the caregiver
signs the paperwork and commits to monthly visits, there are all the
conversations between the caregiver and other concerned parties (the
enrollee’s children, for example) – the strategy sessions. The thinking
is: we can only take part in so many studies; if we pick the right
study, we get first dibs on the magic potion, before anyone else, at a
reduced rate. So you do your due diligence. You follow developments...''
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