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In 1990, Ann Davidson's husband, Julian, a prominent physiology professor at Stanford Medical School, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He was fifty-nine. "I'm no longer intelligent", he told her later, "but, please let's enjoy our life together while I can still talk". <p>This is the gripping memoir of one critical year when Ann and her husband learned to live with his increasing dementia. It is the story of loyalty in the face of uncertainty and loss.</p> <p>Following her husband's diagnosis, desperate for information, Ann felt terrified by what she read. Alzheimer's pamphlets were grim, mainly describing later stages in the long progression of the disease. The personal accounts she found usually did not explore emotions or create full pictures of daily life. And communication problems, so devastating in Alzheimer's, were glossed over.</p> <p>Alzheimer's, A Love Story, offers fifty-six vignettes, each telling a complete story. In "Toyota, Toyota", Julian loses their car: "I got out and left it. I don't know why. It's by that brown place...north...up north...way up there...by a brown place...on the ground...where people live...".</p> <p>In "Rehearsal", Julian prepares to rec

Author

Ann Davidson

Publisher

Carol Publishing Group

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9781559724180

Subjects

Social Science, Medical, Memoir

Rating

4.8 / 5 (13 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14