Just. For themselves. But with they say. Again well new research is telling us why women in the United States are more likely to develop alzheimers 2 thirds of those with the disease a female and understanding why is key to improving the treatment christine salumi reports from new york market alexander didnt fully realize what she was up against when her mother 1st began to exhibit symptoms of alzheimers disease even though she had seen similar symptoms in her aunts they had the same kind of symptoms they were forget they would get confused disoriented and repeat just like mom now a member of the family is always with the 96 year old the one time that cause us the greatest concern is when she walked out of the apartment at my in her nightgown. It was a rapid decline for a woman who had raised 2 children been active in her church and worked outside the home a factor now known to help stave off memory loss one new study shows the average memory performance for nonworking women between 60