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NPR reports on the struggle of Alzheimer’s patients who don’t have health insurance trying to find ways to pay for their care and lobby for greater protections for themselves. “Alzheimer’s is thought of as a disease of the elderly. But there are also people – maybe a couple hundred thousand or more – who have Alzheimer’s in their 40s and 50s. People like Teresa Lambert, who is 54.

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