Mercè Boada is a neurologist and co-founder and medical director of Ace Alzheimer Center, in Barcelona. “I am very optimistic: when we have the experience of two years of treatment with these new drugs, society will lose its fear” “With education I reduce my risk because my brain has tools to make up for a deficit.

All this is prevention. I water my plant every day so that it makes it to next spring,” says the 76-year-old.