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One Northern Virginia family's journey with early-onset Alzheimer's disease

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Northern VirginiaJanuary 24, 2024 6:03 pm

One Northern Virginia family's journey with early-onset Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer’s is not just a disease of old age, as two sisters in Northern Virginia learned when their mom was diagnosed at age 51. News4’s Eun Yang reports.

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