The Memory Loss Tapes
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This program puts a human face on the progression of Alzheimer's disease as it profiles seven people, ages 63 to 87, at different stages of the illness. Cases range from a woman fiercely holding onto her independence even as memory lapses make it harder and harder to do so, to a man who can no longer remember his family yet can still perform beautifully with a vocal group, to a woman who must be fenced in, literally, to keep her from wandering off her daughter's property. "We wanted to capture a sense of what it was to be inside the disease," says filmmaker Shari Cookson. "You see...how everything you've learned and been in your life is stripped away-yet you still get these glimmers of the person".
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1 hr 23 min 49 sec
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