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[Video: Dr. Bruce Lamb]
Bruce speaks:
It's just so impactful because memory is who we are.
[Words appear: Memory is who we are.]
[Music plays.]
[Words appear: 10,000 baby boomers are approaching age 65 each day in the U.S.]
[Words appear: This is the population most at risk for Alzheimer’s.]
[Video: Anita Harden]
Anita speaks: My mom was in her late seventies at the time we got her diagnosed for Alzheimer's.
[Video: Photos of Anita’s mother.]
Anita speaks:
By that time she was probably in the moderate stages. My father kept saying, "Doris keeps losing her keys," things like that. But when I came home to visit and my mother and I had to travel and we got a layover in Denver, she went to the restroom and we couldn't find her 45 minutes later. Then I knew something was wrong.
[Video: Words display on screen, 5.7 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s.]
[Video: Words display on screen, By 2050, this number is projected to nearly triple.]
[Video: Exterior footage of IU School of Medicine Neurosciences Center. Footage of student working with burshes in petri dish.]
Bruce speaks:
It's important for IU School of Medicine to invest and develop the resources and capabilities and ultimately develop therapies for patients with Alzheimer's disease because of the potential impact it's going to have not only on Hoosiers and Indiana citizens, but across the nation, across the globe.
[Video: Photo of Anita’s mother. Photo of Anita’s father.]
Anita speaks:
At the point my mother got diagnosed, my father was perfectly fine. Then I started noticing he was having memory problems.
[Video: Anita Harden]
Anita speaks: But I said, if we get you diagnosed early, that will help slow the process down.
[Video: Photo of Anita’s mother. Family photo of Anita, her father, sister, and mother at sister’s graduation.]
At that point I became a caregiver for my mom who was more in advanced stages and my dad who was in the very early stages. It was very challenging, particularly challenging
[Video: Anita speaks]
in caregiving for my dad because he was a very strong figure and all of a
[Video: Photo of Anita’s father]
Anita speaks: Suddenly I was caregiver for the man who looked after me. That was hard.
[Words appear on screen: Last year American caregivers provided 18.5 billion hours valued at $234 billion.]
[Words appear on screen: Anita is just one of 16 million unpaid caregivers in the U.S.]
[Video: Dr. Bruce Lamb]
[Bruce speaks: We need big teams who bring in a lot of different people with a lot of different expertise and
[Video: Student and faculty researcher looking at petri dish. Faculty researcher and student looking at computer screen. Bruce working in petri dish. Researcher and patient conversation. Patient draws a clock on piece of paper. Computer screen.]
no one person can do it all. A lot of the big programs that we have funded here are part of these big team projects, including one on developing animal models for Alzheimer's disease that we call the Model-AD Consortium that I lead. Indiana University is also the main site for an early-onset study of Alzheimer's disease called LEADS. We competed for one of two successful slots for a new drug discovery center funded by the NIH.
Anita speaks:
With my generation, the baby boomers, we are just going to flood the system. We don't want to go to nursing homes. We want to stay independent as long as possible and so we need to find a cure.
[Video: Hand drawing fluid out of jar and inserting it into test tube. People open airport gates. Woman laughs. Man cooks with grandchildren. Man carries grandson across field.]
Bruce speaks:
I think the progress and the promise is yet to come. A lot of work ahead of us. There are a lot of really smart people working on it here so I'm very optimistic.
[Video: Dr. Bruce Lamb]
We will make a difference in people's lives.
[Words appear: Indiana University.]
Words appear: iu.edu.]
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