there s a soft type of demeantia that we are talking to today. a sub category. about 20% of these patients get this. this is actually happens in the younger population. so we are talking about people in their 40s and 50s that they are doing just fine and all of a sudden the memory goes and they start acting completely different behavior. the frontal part of the brain has to do with the personality. temporal is the language and memory and other things. they go from being completely normal to very bizarre behavior. the way to diagnose is to do a spinal tap. have is an envasive procedure and works in about 75% of the time but now there is a new study from the university of pennsylvania published. the disease is also known as pix disease because there are changes in the nervous system. it is a focal dementia. only part of the brain is affected. having the mri is extremely helpful. parents see their kids completely wasting away in front of their eyes. using the mri gives us the diagnose and early and hopefully intervention and treatment. >> how do you know you could

. >>> claro es importante reconocer las señale,s porque si alguien olvida cosas sencillas o pone cosas en situaciones poco comunes pueden ser el inicio. >>> qué tienen que hacer los televidentes si sospechan que un pariente sufre de la enfermedad de alzheimer. >>> hay que iniciar un diálogo con la familia y definitivamente con el médico sería importante, porque no hay que confundir esto con el envejecimiento normal, porque no es cuestión de ignorar o pensar que esto va a pasar, así que tomar más información. >>> aceptar, no evadir y buscar información y solución ,dónde hay más información sobre el alzheimer. >>> tenemos mucho más que aprender sobre esta enfermedad, definitivamente como le mencionaba, hablando con el médico o salud en univision.com es importante para más información, es importante tomar acción hoy en día, porque mientras más temprano hacemos el diagnóstico, más oportunidad de ayudar al individuo. >>> doctor, muchísimas gracias por estar con nosotros en despierta américa y sobre todo informando a la comunidad de la enfermedad, señores, ya regresa

when you get them in your 30's and 40's and you have them into your aging process, you are not going to have a comfortable old age. you are also seeing in terms of epidemics, an increase in alzheimer's and it is going to increase as the population increases. there are quite a few seniors who have mental health problems but they are also, the majority of seniors, who are hard-working, who had minimum wage jobs their whole lives, who paid social security. think about living on $889 a month in the city of san francisco needing to buy medication, one meal a day, hopefully, and health care. if we could provide health care early on we might prevent (inaudible) and people would be less likely to end up in the emergency room with a drastic outcome. we could actually provide prevention and health care to people who had no other way of getting health care, those without insurance, it might be more cost effective >> here we are at the embarcadero. we are standing at one of locations for the street artists. can you tell me about this particular location, the program? >> this location is very sig