![]() ![]() In the advanced stages, he was unable to walk alone or control his bowels and bladder, all of which led to a protracted period of being bedbound, incontinent, and refusing to eat. Within two years, he entered the middle stages, requiring help with daily activities such as dressing, and he became paranoid and suspicious and lost his way if he left the house. He was soon unable to manage his finances or remember details of his personal history. Readers will know the outcome but continue to turn the pages as Jauhar delivers a gripping account of Prem’s steady decline through the “seven stages” of Alzheimer’s. The diagnosis was mild cognitive impairment-mental functioning “worse than expected for his age.” MCI affects about 1 in 5 elderly adults, 20% of which will progress to Alzheimer’s. In a testing session, Prem counted backward from 100 by sevens and wrote a sentence correctly but failed to spell world backward or draw a clock with the time 11:10. ![]() Prem noted that forgetting is a normal part of aging, but while waiting for a doctor’s appointment, the author asked what they ate for lunch, and he couldn’t remember. ![]() ![]() Jauhar, a cardiologist and author of Interned, Doctored, and Heart, begins with the revelation that his father, Prem, a world-class geneticist in his 70s, was forgetting more than usual. A doctor and bestselling writer chronicles his father’s battle with dementia. ![]()
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