‘Trying to deal with these things’: June is Alzheimer’s, Brain Awareness Month [Video]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — June is Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month. The Alzheimer’s Association wants people to “take charge” of their brain health to prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s and other dementias.

Worldwide, the association reports more than 55 million people live with dementia in some form. In America, it is around seven million people.

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Prisca Asaro is the program director for the local Alzheimer’s Association. She has a tie to the disease after caring for her mother, who died in 2022. Asaro said, unlike her father’s cancer diagnosis, her mother’s dementia came with little guidance.

“When my mother got the diagnosis back in 2016, it was, ‘She has Alzheimer’s. Here’s a prescription. We’ll see you in a year.’ How do I take care of her? What kind of decisions do you need to make? What are the tests that are going to happen? Will there be new medications coming forward? You …