Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24979796-20141003111126/@comment-24386552-20141005230022

I guess so. Something weird someone pointed out on a review for this episode, is that they were worried about how many times Maggie kept forgetting Jo's last name. That she may have the Alzheimer's gene. Complete long-shot but someone pointed that out. Though it appeared that Meredith may have had it, I think it was stated that she didn't. But since Maggie is also Ellis' child, she could have it too. Side note: Irony. At the end of the whole Ellis and Richard affair thing, both Ellis and Adele got Alzhiemer's while Richard and Thatcher both struggled with alcoholism. Not all these things happened at the same time and for the same reason, but did happen to the main (older) adults of the show.