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The Forgetting: Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic
The Forgetting Alzheimer's Portrait of an Epidemic
Author: David Shenk
An urgent and moving exploration of the Alzheimer’s epidemic, The Forgetting is a dazzling meditation on the nature of memory and self and on the disease that robs people of both. — Alzheimer’s disease is a demographic time bomb. Since 1975, the number of Americans afflicted has risen from five hundred thousand to five million...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780385498371
ISBN-10: 0385498373
Publication Date: 9/4/2001
Pages: 292
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Publisher: Doubleday
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Grinnin avatar reviewed The Forgetting: Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic on + 5 more book reviews
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I've already passed this book on to another in our support group. It's a great read: for its history, literary feel and empathy for those with AD and those caring for them. My mother couldn't put it down until she finished it and I read it quickly. Of course we stand by my dad who has the disease.
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