one can only hope that one will be spared this fate

Alice is a professor at Harvard, Department of Psychology, viewed and popular. She knows perfectly from in their field, can equip their students with the knowledge and exciting is welcome speaker at various events. This recognition and the knowledge of their own intelligence make much from it, determine their self-image and illustrate well who she is. The first taken not as serious incidents, not finding a word or an object suddenly take another dimension as Alice while jogging lose orientation and that knows where she is, but can not tell where in relation to it is their home , After several tests then the terrible certainty: it has genetically determined Alzheimer and has also partially inherited by their children. We now see how the independent, intelligent woman zunehmends degrades, desperately in the simple things of everyday life and how desperate not only themselves, but their environment, this must also watch. The worst fear this: to lose themselves.
The disease and the life so is described in full detail, I really liked that everything is told from Alice view and their problems are clearly illustrated the difficulties to be able to grasp ideas yet in words. A sad book and one that gives hope a that a fate never overtakes himself.