Families demand end to Medicare waiting period for early-onset Alzheimer’s patients

He received the diagnosis in 2018, completely upending life for his family. His youngest child was just a freshman in high school.

“It’s like somebody grabs you by the ankles and turns you upside down and shakes you,” Jason Raubach’s wife, Elizabeth Raubach, told the Washington Examiner.

Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive disease that causes dementia, impairing a person’s memory, thinking, and behavior. It is caused by a buildup of plaque made up of proteins, which will cause disruptions to cell function, eventually leading to death. There is no cure for the disease, but medications have been developed to help slow it down.

“It’s kind of like Frankenstein is coming towards you,” Elizabeth Raubach said. “It doesn’t matter how fast you run away from it.

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