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No one wants to watch a loved one lose him or herself slowly, even if the person has lived a full, long life. Can you imagine watching a young child go through the debilitating effects of Alzheimer's? For the last four years, a girl named Isobel Jeffrey has been suffering the gradual decrease of function that is similar to Alzheimer's. Isobel is now only 13 years old and was first diagnosed with early-onset dementia at age nine. Other cases I've read about early onset referred to patients in the

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