Tag: Alzheimer’s Disease

“Shawn says Jo asked him to promise he would never let him go into a nursing home, that he would help him find some way to end his life on his own terms.”

Dementia is a kind of erasure, a death before death, where the living discount the infirmed long before they’re gone.

Peering into the mirror of her mother, Marcia Aldrich wonders whether she too is sentenced to dementia.

Marlene Adelstein finds herself transported back in time and consciousness via an inherited painting.

George Andrie’s daughter, Mary Brooks, is speaking out against the NFL’s slipshod settlement claims process.

An obsession with an orphaned sea otter helps Marlene Adelstein process her grief over her Alzheimers-afflicted mom.

For Maria Browning’s mother, Alzheimer’s Disease has dimmed old torments.

Steve Goodwin was a talented musician, but he never recorded or wrote anything down. As his memory began to fade, his family found a professional pianist to help save the music in his head.

A man develops Alzheimer’s Disease, and his wife learns to cope with it: While most people associate Alzheimer’s with memory loss, its effects on reasoning and behaviour are no less defining, and arguably more problematic. The doctor scans his notes from their last visit and asks if their nights are still “disturbed.” Once or twice […]