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Someone I Once Knew
- 1983 ----- color ----- 32 min ----- 16mm
- Alzheimer's Disease, a progressive mental deterioration, will affect one in six Americans who live to the age of 65. It starts with memory loss and progresses over a decade or more to destroy all mental capacity--intelligence, language and emotion. There is no diagnostic test for the disease; however some medications help to slow the effects. In the advanced stages the victim is unaware of their surroundings. As a concerned family member says, "There is no longer the person I knew." But the problems of the disease do not end with the patient; the feelings of the family must be addressed as well--worry, stress, guilt.
- Topics: (Family Life, Gerontology, Medicine)
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