The couple with two children is the youngest Alzheimer's patient in the UK

Sisters Emily (died at age 21) and Sarah Bushaway (19) have become the youngest Alzheimer's patients in the UK when diagnosed with the disease in turn at 6 and 10 years old.

Sisters Emily (died at age 21) and Sarah Bushaway (19) have become the youngest Alzheimer's patients in the UK when diagnosed with the disease in turn at 6 and 10 years old.

In 2001, when she was only 6 years old, little girl Emily Bushaway was taken by her parents Mark and sister Lisa (at the same age of 48) because she started to have strange expressions such as can't remember your name. learn. Later, the family was shocked when she was diagnosed with one of the world's rarest genetic diseases called Niemann-Pick - a form of Alzheimer's disease that affects only about 700 people worldwide. world.

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The sisters Emily and Sarah were both diagnosed with dementia at a very young age.

7 years later, Mr. Mark and Ms. Lisa continue to receive news when the youngest daughter Sarah also suffers from a similar disease at 10 years old.

Since then, Lisa and her husband have been reluctant to stay at home to take care of their children full-time and unable to relieve their pain when witnessing two healthy daughters suddenly collapsed both physically and mentally. Both Emily and Sarah are increasingly weak and incapable of walking, talking, writing.

Lisa shared: 'It is a cruel disease, one of the worst diseases I have ever heard. It has taken a lot from us. If we had to have someone with dementia, then we expected it to be me and Mark when we were old. We never want our daughter to need care 24/24 as it is now. '

After years of fighting with illness, in 2016, Emily died at the age of 21. Currently, Sarah is increasingly weak and has shown signs of life expectancy.

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Sarah with her parents.

The disease of the evil monster destroyed Lisa's happy family to exhaustion, making her no longer dared to believe in her faith.

Through her unbelievably heartbreaking story, Lisa only hopes to raise people's awareness of the dangers of dementia in young children.

Update 15 December 2018
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