Monday, August 1, 2011

Building Neural Roads

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Whether you have Alzheimer’s or are of a certain age that you’ve started routinely forgetting where you put your keys, you’re probably heari...
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Wednesday, June 1, 2011

When is it Normal and When is it Alzheimer's?

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Since the release of Still Alice, I’ve had the privilege of talking to a lot of audiences about Alzheimer’s. One of the most common question...
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

The Valley of the Baby Dolls

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I recently read ‘DANCING WITH ROSE: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer’s’ by Lauren Kessler. In it, she reveals the inner life of an Alzh...
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

What Rich Hopes For

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In the picture I’d seen of Rich on the internet prior to meeting him, he has short brown hair and a full beard covering his face. He’s weari...
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Sunday, October 24, 2010

What's Your Motto?

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Back when I was doing a lot of pre-publication interviews for STILL ALICE, I was asked, “What’s your motto?” I had to think for a minute, an...
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Friday, September 24, 2010

Treatment Without Numbers

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I know a widely-respected neurologist at a prestigious, teaching hospital who once said, “Treating dementia is like rearranging the chairs...
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Life Lessons from the Dementia Care Conference

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I attended the annual Dementia Care Conference in Chicago back in the summer of 2007. I was there to promote my then self-published novel, S...
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Thursday, June 24, 2010

Finding Your Kaleidoscopes

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You’re at a party in the middle of telling a story about your favorite childhood toy, but you can’t for the life of you come up with its nam...
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Monday, May 24, 2010

Talking with James

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A couple of years ago, I sat down and talked with my friend James about his life before Alzheimer’s. James used to be the Director of IT f...
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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Happy Valentine's: A Love Story

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John and Mary have been married for fifty-three years. Mary has Alzheimer’s Disease and lives in an Alzheimer’s Care Facility. John visits h...
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