Reagans to Work With Group on Funding Alzheimer’s Studies
Former President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, announced Tuesday that they will lend their names to a “research institute without walls” dedicated to the study of Alzheimer’s disease.
The Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Institute will work with the Chicago-based Alzheimer’s Assn. to give research grants to scientists, drug companies, universities and medical centers for work on the crippling brain disorder.
“We both agreed that lending our name to the institute was the right thing to do,” Nancy Reagan said in a statement issued by her husband’s office in Century City. “We’ve been public people our entire married life, you know. If we can make a difference through our involvement, then we’ve simply got to do it.”
Sunday is the anniversary of the day that President Reagan announced in a letter to the American public that he was suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease.
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