Alice Howland is proud of the life she has worked so hard to build.
A Harvard professor -- linguistics professor at Columbia in film adaptation -- , she has a successful husband and three grown children.
When Alice Howland begins to grow forgetful at first she just dismisses it.
But when she gets lost in her own neighborhooud she realizes that something is terribly wrong.
Alice finds herself in the rapid downward spiral of Alzheimer’s disease.
She is only 50 years old.
She didn’t want to become someone people avoided and feared.
She wanted to live to hold Anna’s baby and know it was her grandchild.
She wanted to see Lydia act in something she was proud of.
She wanted to see Tom fall in love.
She wanted to read every book she could before she could no longer read.
While Alice Howland ONCE placed her worth and IDENTITY (in Grice's sense "Personal Identity") in her celebrated and respected academic life, now she must re-evaluate her relationship with her husband, her expectations of her children and her ideas about herself and her place in the world.
Losing her yesterdays, her short-term memory hanging on by a couple of frayed threads, she is living in the moment, living for each day.
But she is still Alice.
Still Alice is as compelling as A Beautiful Mind and as powerful as Ordinary People.
You will gain an understanding of those affected by early-onset Alzheimer’s and remain moved and inspired long after you have put it down.
She wanted to live to hold Anna’s baby and know it was her grandchild.
She wanted to see Lydia act in something she was proud of.
She wanted to see Tom fall in love.
She wanted to read every book she could before she could no longer read.
While Alice Howland ONCE placed her worth and IDENTITY (in Grice's sense "Personal Identity") in her celebrated and respected academic life, now she must re-evaluate her relationship with her husband, her expectations of her children and her ideas about herself and her place in the world.
Losing her yesterdays, her short-term memory hanging on by a couple of frayed threads, she is living in the moment, living for each day.
But she is still Alice.
Still Alice is as compelling as A Beautiful Mind and as powerful as Ordinary People.
You will gain an understanding of those affected by early-onset Alzheimer’s and remain moved and inspired long after you have put it down.
ربما يكون الرئيس السابق للولايات المتحدة هو الشخص الأكثر شهرة المصاب أمل جديد في علاج مرض الزهايمر. كان ريغان يبلغ من العمر 84 عامًا عندما تم تشخيص حالته في عام 1994. وأعلن هو وزوجته نانسي عن ذلك على الفور تقريبًا في محاولة لزيادة الوعي بالمرض
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