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My Father'S Brain: Life In The Shadow Of Alzheimer'S
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN13:
9780374605841
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A deeply affecting memoir of a father's descent into dementia, and a revelatory inquiry into why the human brain degenerates with age and what we can do about it. Almost six million Americansabout one in every ten over the age of sixty-fivehave Alzheimers disease or related dementias, and this number is projected to more than double by 2050. What is it like to live with and amid this increasingly prevalent conditionan affliction that some fear more than death? In My Fathers Brain, the distinguished physician and author Sandeep Jauhar sets his fathers descent into Alzheimers alongside his own journey toward understanding this disease and how it might best be coped with, if not cured. In an intimate memoir rich with humor and heartbreak, Jauhar relates how his immigrant father and extended family felt, quarreled, and found their way through the dissolution of a cherished life. Along the way, he lucidly exposes what happens in the brain as we age and our memory falters, and explores everything from the history of ancient Greece to the most cutting-edge neurologicaland bioethicalresearch. Throughout, My Fathers Brain confronts the moral and psychological concerns that arise when family members must become caregivers, when childrens and parents roles reverse, and when we must accept unforeseen turns in our closest relationshipsand in our understanding of what it is to have a self. The result is a work of essential insight into dementia, and into how scientists, caregivers, and all of us in an aging society are reckoning with the fallout.
- | Author: Sandeep Jauhar
- | Publisher: Farrar, Straus And Giroux
- | Publication Date: Apr 11, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 256 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 037460584X
- | ISBN-13: 9780374605841
- Author:
- Sandeep Jauhar
- Publisher:
- Farrar, Straus And Giroux
- Publication Date:
- Apr 11, 2023
- Number of pages:
- 256 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 037460584X
- ISBN-13:
- 9780374605841