Alzheimers disease is a progressive and degenerative brain disease that slowly erodes the neurons associated with memory and cognitive function, eventually even impairing the ability to carry out simple tasks in daily life.The current paper proposes that compassion meditation might preserve or enhance cognitive function and improve the capacity for emotion regulation, including increasing memory, enhancing decision-making, and reducing depressive and anxious symptoms.The beneficial changes may also promote neural plasticity, particularly in the hippocampus and temporal lobes, which are critical brain regions underlying the formation of memory and learning, and areas most susceptible to shrinkage when people age.