Emmy-award successful broadcast journalist and leading Alzheimer’s advocate Meryl Comer’s Sluggish Dancing Using a Stranger is a profoundly personal, unflinching account of her husband’s struggle with Alzheimer’s disease that serves as a much-needed wake-up call to raised understand and address a progressive and lethal affliction.

When Meryl Comer’s spouse Harvey Gralnick was identified as having early onset Alzheimer’s disease in 1996, she watched mainly because the man who headed hematology and oncology analysis at the approximately Slow Dancing using a Stranger: Shed and Within the Age of Alzheimer’s Country wide Institutes of Wellness started to misplace important files and forget clinical information that had once been cataloged encyclopedically in his mind’s eye. With harrowing integrity, she brings visitors face to face with this damaging condition and its own results on its victims and those who care for them. Describing the daily realities and overpowering obligations of caregiving, Comer sheds extensive light upon this national health turmoil, using her personal experiences-the mistakes as well as the breakthroughs-to place a encounter to a misinterpreted disease, while revealing the facts everyone needs to know.

Pragmatic and relentless, Meryl has dedicated herself to fighting Alzheimer’s and increasing general public awareness. “Nothing I do is actually about me; it’s about making sure no one ends up like me,” she writes. Deeply personal and illuminating, Slow Dancing With a Stranger gives insight and assistance for navigating Alzheimer’s difficulties. It is also an urgent proactive approach for intensive study and a caution that people must plan the future, rather than being controlled by an illness and a health care system struggling to fight it.