Has Alzheimer's disease touched your life yet? If not, it will be near impossible to escape its affect on members of your own family, some of your friends or even yourself, as it reaches
epidemic proportions in the near future. Every 70 seconds someone develops AD. By mid-century scientists predict the incidence will increase to one every 33 seconds. The clock is ticking unless
we find a cure.'Essays' shares an overview of scientific and historical data,along with personal experiences of the author, a psychologist, in becoming a caregiver and ultimately a patient.
Become privy to her most intimate feelings as she watches loved ones suffer then has the dreaded diagnosis appplied to her own life in a rather bizarre way. Share her feelings as she makes the
decision to not become a victim - to do what she can to slow the process then to get on with her life. Find out what comes next after the diagnosis; read about steps the author has taken to
adjust and perhaps extend her mental functioning a bit longer. Her message is that the most important aspect of attitude in any disease is to control the disease rather than letting the disease
control the patient. The journey can be a long, lonely one.
