Taking a look at Alzheimer's disease in the black community

From: Call and Post (Cleveland) | Date: September 30, 1993| Author: | Copyright information

Wilkes, Nathaniel K
Call and Post (Cleveland)
09-30-1993
Taking a look at Alzheimer's Disease in the Black community.

By NATHANIEL K. WILKES

Call and Post Staff Reporter

For Michael R. Fain, Ph.D., it was interesting to watch the man he called granddad, the patriarch of his family, deteriorate in four years into someone who didn't know Fain at all.

His deterioration was the result of the onset of Alzheimer's Disease.

Fain, the director of the Alzheimer's Center Satellite, along with ministers from churches within the Black community of Cleveland, attended the Alzheimer Center Clergy Breakfast, ...