My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's by Jauhar, Sandeep

My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's

"These pages will be a blessing to families dealing with Alzheimer's. Sandeep Jauhar's prose is insightful, honest,...
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Author: Sandeep Jauhar
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Language: English
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My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's by Jauhar, Sandeep

My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's

€39,75

My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's

€39,75
Author: Sandeep Jauhar
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

"These pages will be a blessing to families dealing with Alzheimer's. Sandeep Jauhar's prose is insightful, honest, and moving about a condition that most of us will inevitably encounter in our lifetimes." --Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone

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 Americans--about one in every ten people over the age of sixty-five--have Alzheimer's 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 condition--an affliction that some fear more than death? In My Father's Brain, the distinguished physician and author Sandeep Jauhar sets his father's descent into Alzheimer's 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 neurological--and bioethical--research. Throughout, My Father's Brain confronts the moral and psychological concerns that arise when family members must become caregivers, when children's and parents' roles reverse, and when we must accept unforeseen turns in our closest relationships--and 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
Published: 04/11/2023
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780374605841

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