Bernice Osborne (right) with her mother, Mary, at their home in Dorchester.
(Yoon S. Byun/ Globe Staff)
THE LONG RUN
‘Do I have it?’
Tests for early signs of Alzheimer’sare in the works, but their routine use is still far off
Bernice Osborne (right) with her mother, Mary, at their home in Dorchester.
(Yoon S. Byun/ Globe Staff)
In retrospect, Bernice Osborne realizes there were warning signs more than eight years ago. Her mother, Mary, who was then 64, was having to re-read everything at her hospital job to grasp it. And she got lost one day going for a walk in their Dorchester neighborhood, where she had lived for 40 years. (Full article: 1105 words)
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