The Forgetting: Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic
by David Shenk
Buy on AmazonNATIONAL BESTSELLER A powerfully engaging, scrupulously researched, and deeply empathetic narrative of the history of Alzheimer’s disease, how it affects us, and the search for a cure. Afflicting nearly half of all people over the age of 85, Alzheimer’s disease kills nearly 100,000 Americans a year as it insidiously robs them of their memory and wreaks havoc on the lives of their loved ones. It was once minimized and misunderstood as forgetfulness in the elderly, but Alzheimer’s is now at the forefront of many medical and scientific agendas, for as the world’s population ages, the disease will touch the lives of virtually everyone.…
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"This book is a terrifying, yet deeply moving exploration of an epidemic that stripped my mother of her life paragraph by paragraph, sentence by sentence, and finally word by word."
By the Book: Diane Keaton · nytimes.com