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Vancouver Teen Develops App to Help Detect Alzheimer’s Disease

An eighteen-year-old student from Vancouver, BC has designed a smartphone system that assists in detecting whether or not someone may have Alzheimer’s disease. Kai Leong, a recent graduate of Killarney Secondary School, has developed an app that examines an individual’s gait to detect early onset symptoms of the neurological disorder.

Reality Check: Alzheimer’s Can Hit People in their 40s (yes, really)

By now, most of us have experienced the devastating effects of Alzheimer’s disease as we’ve watched our loved ones mentally slip away from who they once were. To call the experience a painful one is a major understatement. For most of us, our experience with the disease involves elderly grandparents.