interview with the manager of an alzheimers care facility

 "Have you noticed anything that might lead to a cure for Alzheimers?"

"No James. There's nothing. There's no hope in these cases. No cure. Nothing can be done."

"I mean in all your years here. Have you seen anything that lessened the impact of the disease? Everyone gets used to being told by doctors and medical professionals that there's no hope. But sometimes someone like you who works at the coalface for years and years, sometimes someone like you notices something, even a little thing, that the supposed experts miss. Anything? Anything at all that you saw and that gave you pause. Anything that improved things, even if only slightly?"

"Okay. I think I noticed that some people who didn't go the medication route managed better than others who did."

"Did you notice anything that might indicate a cause for Alzheimers? Why do we get it?"

"The only thing I noticed is that in many cases people had suffered some great trauma or some great sadness or some great hurt in their lives that they never quite managed to come to terms with."