Is a Cure Just Around the Corner?

Every now and then, especially during the holidays when I'm feeling particularly crabby toward big business and crass commercialization, I get to thinking: they'll build condos on Jupiter before they find a cure for dementia-related illnesses.

Why?

1. It’s a disease that involves old people.

2. We, as a society, don't really like old people despite what we like to say.

3. Old scares us because after old is death and that really scares us.

4. Old age is a big business, employing lots of people, feeding lots of families, gassing up lots of cars and sending lots of kids to college.

5. Old age is a big business that’s getting bigger by the minute.

6. Old age is today's golden goose.

7. We don’t kill golden geese.

And now we return to our regularly scheduled program.