At the Mayo Clinic’s Conference on Brain Health & Dementia, PMC Co-director Jason Karlawish, MD, was a featured speaker. Dr. Karlawish told three stories of significant figures that demonstrate the influence of politics and culture on Alzheimer’s disease research and care.
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Jason Karlawish’s Recommended Reads
By Jason Karlawish
2021 was a big book year for me.
Yes of course, there was mine. Conversations and correspondence with readers of The Problem of Alzheimer’s were enlightening and inspiring. So too was reading the following.
Three books rounded out my understanding of the experiences of either being a person with disabling and progressive cognitive impairments caused by diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, or of caring for that person.
Recommended reads from PMC faculty and staff
As the year comes to a close, the faculty and staff of the Penn Memory Center offer you their favorite books they read in 2021. Click the book title to learn more and purchase.
When the Eye on Older Patients Is a Camera
In the middle of a rainy Michigan night, 88-year-old Dian Wurdock walked out the front door of her son’s home in Grand Rapids, barefoot and coatless. Her destination was unknown even to herself.
Wurdock was several years into a dementia diagnosis that turned out to be Alzheimer’s disease. By luck, her son woke up and found her before she stepped too far down the street. As the Alzheimer’s progressed, so did her wandering and with it, her children’s anxiety.
“I was losing it,” said her daughter, Deb Weathers-Jablonski. “I needed to keep her safe, especially at night.”