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Maureen Isaacson Reviews Something On My Mind – Kate Jowell: Her battle with Alzheimer’s by Sharon Sorour-Morris

December 9th, 2009 by Jani

Something On My Mind - Kate Jowell: Her battle with Alzheimer’sVerdict: carrot

There is no way around this sad story. Downhill is the only possible route once the forgetfulness and serious memory loss of Alzheimer’s disease has set in.

Many of us fear that its bell may toll for us when we begin to lose our keys and the names of our primary school teachers evade us. Adam Philips in The Forgetting – Understanding Alzheimer’s: A Biography of a Disease says that it is “the modern disease that, apart from cancer, haunts our lives”.

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