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SLOW DANCING WITH A STRANGER
By: Meryl Comer
Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimer's
HarperOne
September 2014
On Sale: September 2, 2014
240 pages
ISBN: 006213082X
EAN: 9780062130822
Kindle: B00H7LUQ1S
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Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist and leading Alzheimerβs advocate Meryl Comerβs Slow Dancing With a Stranger is a profoundly personal, unflinching account of her husbandβs battle with Alzheimerβs disease that serves as a much-needed wake-up call to better understand and address a progressive and deadly affliction. When Meryl Comerβs husband Harvey Gralnick was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimerβs disease in 1996, she watched as the man who headed hematology and oncology research at the National Institutes of Health started to misplace important documents and forget clinical details that had once been cataloged encyclopedically in his mind. With harrowing honesty, she brings readers face to face with this devastating condition and its effects on its victims and those who care for them. Detailing the daily realities and overwhelming responsibilities of caregiving, Comer sheds intensive light on this national health crisis, using her personal experiencesβthe mistakes and the breakthroughsβto put a face to a misunderstood disease, while revealing the facts everyone needs to know. Pragmatic and relentless, Meryl has dedicated herself to fighting Alzheimerβs and raising public awareness. βNothing I do is really about me; itβs all about making sure no one ends up like me,β she writes. Deeply personal and illuminating, Slow Dancing With a Stranger offers insight and guidance for navigating Alzheimerβs challenges. It is also an urgent call to action for intensive research and a warning that we must prepare for the future, instead of being controlled by a disease and a healthcare system unable to fight it.
 Media BuzzDiane Rehm Show - NPR - August 25, 2014
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