Carol is 54, hikes the Siskiyous on weekends, and has been forgetting words mid-sentence for two years. Her doctor ran the standard tests, found nothing, and told her it's just part of getting older.

Her doctor is probably wrong.

This is the first episode in a three-part series on Alzheimer's disease in women — drawing on the research of Dr. Lisa Mosconi, director of the Women's Brain Initiative at Weill Cornell Medicine, and grounded in what Southern Oregon currently has, and critically lacks, for women navigating this risk right now.

In This Episode, You'll Learn:

• Why the standard explanation for women's higher Alzheimer's rate — that women live longer — falls apart the moment you press on it, and what the brain imaging data points to instead
• Why Alzheimer's is a midlife disease that shows up in old age — an ...