The Forgetting: Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic

The Person within the Patient

This is a remarkable tender book. Shenk doesn't give advice. He gives information. Most important, he provides insight into what is happening to the Alzheimer's sufferer himself - outside of the caregiver, the doctors, the family. What is this person feeling, thinking, knowing, as he passes through each stage? Ultimately, this book gives a degree of humanity to this inhumane, dehumanizing disease. It has given great comfort to my father and myself in coping with my mother's end stages.

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Comforting

The book highlighted many issues that I am currently dealing with for my mother. Although much of the book was beyond my intelligence with the many discussions on the genes, etc. and the expiramentation with mice; I did find the average-high level reader discussions comforting knowing that I am not alone in this journey with my mother and that there are advances being made and it is not a forgotten disease.

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