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WNPR's interactive news program explores important issues and ideas that affect where, how and even why people live in Connecticut, and how Connecticut fits into a global society.

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Where We Live: The Age of Alzheimer's

Alzheimer’s is predicted to be the defining disease of the baby boom generation

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Vince Alongi

Alzheimer’s is predicted to be the defining disease of the baby boom generation.

It’s an incurable brain disorder that destroys memory, as well as the ability to speak and function. It also slowly eats away at loved ones who serve as caregivers.

Recent Episodes

12/20/2011 Where We Live: Detainees From The War On Terror President Obama promised to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, used to hold suspected terrorists. Ten years after 9/11...we’re seemingly no closer to a resolution about how to handle these detainees.Attorney General Eric Holder went out on a limb -...	12/20/2011 Where We Live: Connecticut Economy The Connecticut Economy is a quarterly review put out by the University of Connecticut that analyzes - well - the state’s economy. The latest edition was recently released and includes an analysis of Connecticut’s quality of life.One major factor in...
12/20/2011 UConn Approves Tuition Hike Over Four Years The University of Connecticut announced yesterday that it’s raising tuition starting in 2013. Yearly increases thru 2016 will be 6 percent, 6.3 percent, 6.5 percent and 6.8 percent...nearly doubling the cost of attending UConn in less than 12 years...	05/07/2010 WWL: Capitol Roundtable The 2010 State Legislative Session has come to an end. It saw begging, borrowing, budget battles, bats, and a bit of buck-passing.The $19-billion dollar budget avoids tax hikes and deep cuts to social services. It includes what Governor Rell calls a...
05/06/2010 WWL: Money Morals As the Senate votes on amendments to the financial reform bill, Yale is hosting a conference about Money and Morals. These two events seem intertwined, at a time when Americans struggle with questions about whether banks – or borrowers...	05/05/2010 WWL: A Mighty Wind Though climate legislation seems to be stalled in the US Senate, clean energy advocates in Massachusetts and around the nation are cheering this week, after the federal government approved the nation's first offshore wind farm, the Cape Wind Project...
05/05/2010 WWL Podcast - Sponsored by New Alliance Bank Funding for Where We Live comes from our members and from New Alliance Bank. Offering mortgage specialists who provide guidance, personalized products, and financial expertise for mortgage refinancing. Do your thing. ...	05/04/2010 WWL: Sexual Assault on Campus One in five women who enter college will become a victim of rape or attempted rape before they graduate. These numbers are from a report funded by the Department of Justice. A subsequent nine-month investigation by the Center for Public Integrity...
05/03/2010 WWL: Icons and Iconoclasts Christopher Meade served as a priest in the Hartford archdiocese for nine years. Meade left the priesthood when he could no longer reconcile the humility and love that he says are central to the Catholic faith, with the hypocricy he saw...	04/30/2010 Where We Vote: Oz Griebel Oz Griebel's spent the last decade working on developing the Greater Hartford region. Now he's running for Governor. As part of our continuing Where We Vote series, we'll bring in the Republican and talk to him about his vision for the state. He'...

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Where We Live

Where We Live: The Age of Alzheimer's

Alzheimer’s is predicted to be the defining disease of the baby boom generation

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