Former US president Ronald Reagan, and former English Prime Minister Margret Thatcher were among the most powerful people in the world when they held the highest office in their respective countries. The diseases that later befell them, a scant 10 years after they relinquished office, that of different kinds of dementia; are difficult to reconcile with the powerful, and phenomenally influential and successful people that they undoubtedly were.
In August 1994, at the age of 83, Ronald Reagan was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, an incurable neurological disorder which ultimately causes brain cells to die. In November he informed the nation via a hand-written letter, writing in part,
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