r/Alzheimers

Founded September 2009 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Oct 18

/r/alzheimers is a place for people affected by Alzheimer's Disease and dementia to support one another and share news about Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia.

Members

26,980

27K

Online now

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not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

8.9

from the last 100 posts, spanning 11.1 days

Comments per post

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no sample yet

Growth · 7d

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not enough history yet

Growth · 30d

+2.4%

+625 members · ≈37d

Promo tolerance

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not assessed yet

Last post

Oct 18

sampled Oct 18

Distinct posters

88%

of the last 100 posts

Tracking since Sep 11 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.

Member growth

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r/Alzheimers — frequently asked

How many members does r/Alzheimers have?

r/Alzheimers has 26,980 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 18. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.

Is r/Alzheimers growing?

Over the last ≈37 days r/Alzheimers changed by +2.4% — a gain of 625 members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".

How active is r/Alzheimers?

Around 8.9 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 11.1 days. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.

When was r/Alzheimers created?

r/Alzheimers was founded in September 2009 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.

Who posts in r/Alzheimers?

Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 88% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Oct 18. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.

Can I promote my product in r/Alzheimers?

We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/Alzheimers yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.

How do I monitor r/Alzheimers for mentions?

Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/Alzheimers into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.

Can my AI agent read r/Alzheimers's stats?

Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/Alzheimers's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.

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r/Alzheimers Subreddit Stats — 27K members, 8.9 posts/day