Alzheimer's Diptych

(L) For the last five years of his wife Marianne's life, Robert Anspaugh, 91, watched her mind deteriorate quicker than her body from Alzheimer's disease. Saturday morning, Anspaugh traveled across the street from his home at John Knox Village to attend the grand opening of the Johnnie B. Byrd, Sr. Alzheimer’s Center & Research Institute, in hopes that they will find a cure for this "vicious disease."

(R) Empty shelves waiting to be filled at the newly-opened Byrd Institute.