Statewide multi-year Alzheimer’s study targets Hispanics

AUSTIN  (KXAN) — Austin doctors say an expanded study could reveal the cause of Alzheimer’s that’s stumped researchers for years. The answer to what causes it may come from one group of Texans: Mexican-Americans.
Over the last five years, Brent Bradshaw has watched his wife Shelley’s Alzheimer’s progress. They were on a trip to New Mexico when the family noticed something was wrong.
“Everybody was piling into the car to go see Nana and Granddad. And,