This site is dedicated to the honor and memory of my wife June K. Berg and my mother Ellen F. Silbaugh, both victims of Alzheimer's. June diagnosed with Alzheimer’s 26 January 1998 - passed away  on 23 October 2008. My mother died one year earlier 21 October 2007, No one who has traveled into the shadows of Alzheimer’s has ever returned. There have been no medical or miracle cures. Life expectancy is reduced approx. 50% from the day of diagnosis. 

Alzheimer's is 5th leading cause of disease death in the U.S. Causes more deaths than  diabetes and more than Pneumonia and Influenza together. Alzheimer's kills almost 7 times more people every year in the U.S. than die of the so called AIDS epidemic.  (Over 205 daily.)  Alzheimer's mortality numbers  increased 51%  2000 - 2007. (Year 2000 = 49,558 deaths. 2007 = 74,944 deaths.) . There are 420,000 new cases each year. Year 2050 projections =  1,000,000 cases. This disease is raging out of control with inadequate funding for research while congress is busy funding their local pork projects. Contact your Congressman! 

*Data above from U.S. Govt (CDC) latest 2007 estimates. - Alzheimer's Association 2010 Report uses final 2006 data.

June's Guest Book - Star Tribune by Legacy.Com 

Jeanette Trompeter's (WCCO-TV) Blog on June