Medicines that people take or give to their children and pets in the hope of preventing infectious diseases are called "vaccines", "immunizations", "inoculations", or "prophylactics".
In discussing the idea that in the future, there may be a medicine that prevents Alzheimer's Disease, what word might we use to describe it? I doubt that the listed terms would reasonably apply because they are all used to describe medicines that prevent infectious diseases as opposed to disease caused by the body not working right.
The word vaccine comes from the Latin word for cow because the first vaccines were derived from cows, so that doesn't sound like it has anything to do with AD.
Likewise, immunization suggests that there is something that your body becomes immune to, but in AD, there is no pathogen to be immune to.
All of the cited words are associated with medicines that induce an antibody response, which probably has nothing to do with AD.
If such a medicine were available today to prevent AD and I were going to the doctor's office to receive it, how would I tell you this?
I would say, "I am going to the doctor's office to get __________?
Best Answer
I think preventive treatment may fit in the context: