Early Recommendation: Read "The Problem of Alzheimer's" by Dr. Jason Karlawish

A number of years ago, I had an email correspondence going with Dr. Jason Karlawish, Professor of Medicine, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, and Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania.  He was writing and speaking in intelligent, understandable ways about complex issues in degenerative neurocognitive disorders.  

My sister brought him back to my attention, as she had just heard Brené Brown's podcast interview with Dr. Karlawish.  Dr. Karlawish recently published an important book on The Problem of Alzheimer's.  I immediately ordered the book and I'm still reading, but I can tell this is -- and should be -- an important resource for anyone trying to understand or explain the Alzheimer's or other progressive impairments in cognition.  Frankly, that means all of us.  He is taking on an essential question:  "What's a good life when you're losing your ability to determine that life for yourself?"  The subtitle of the book helps explain the scope:  "How science, culture, and politics turned a rare disease into a crisis and what we can do about it."

I'm sure I'll write more hear about this book as I plunge ever deeper into the clear prose, organized in logical chunks, where I'm finding "gold" embedded on every page.  It is not a soothing read, but that is exactly why it is so important.