The Washington Post

The new face of Alzheimer’s: Early-stage patients who refuse to surrender

As the leader of three universities, Rebecca Chopp lived a life of the mind. So when she and her husband, Fred Thibodeau, learned she was in the early throes of Alzheimer's disease, first, they grieved. Then, they decided to fight.

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