Alzheimer's in Latinos expected to increase by more than 800 percent. Chicago researchers are trying to change that

CHICAGO - Salvador Campos had his first stroke in February 1994, weeks ahead of his 49th birthday.

The event left the father of three not only unable to move, but unable to remember the names of loved ones, including his parents. Faces in family photographs were suddenly unfamiliar too. So were addresses, even his own.

But Campos' mobility and memory gradually returned. All appeared normal until Campos, who immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico in the 1970s, had another stroke in 2014, this time at work.

" 'Check on Dad,' " Martha Campos, his wife, remembers her daughter telling her after that stroke. " 'He's walking strange and acting weird.' "

He was never really the same after that day, and a year ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Now 73, he is the third of his parents' six children with the progressive brain