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Slow Dancing With A Stranger
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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Non-Fiction
Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist and leading
Alzheimer’s advocate Meryl Comer’s Slow Dancing With a
Stranger is a profoundly personal, unflinching account
of her husband’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease that serves
as a much-needed wake-up call to better understand and
address a progressive and deadly affliction. When
Meryl Comer’s husband Harvey Gralnick was diagnosed with
early onset Alzheimer’s 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 experiences—the mistakes and the breakthroughs—to
put a face to a misunderstood disease, while revealing the
facts everyone needs to know. Pragmatic and
relentless, Meryl has dedicated herself to fighting
Alzheimer’s and raising public awareness. “Nothing I do is
really about me; it’s all about making sure no one ends up
like me,” she writes. Deeply personal and illuminating,
Slow Dancing With a Stranger offers insight and
guidance for navigating Alzheimer’s 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.
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