My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's

“These pages will be a blessing to families dealing with Alzheimer's. Sandeep Jauhar's prose is insightful, honest, and moving about a condition that most of us will inevitably encounter in our lifetimes." -Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone

A deeply affecting memoir of a father's descent into dementia, and a revelatory inquiry into why the human brain degenerates with age and what we can do about it.

Almost six million Americans-about one in every ten people over the age of sixty-...