STILL ALICE: ART IMITATING LIFE WITH ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE

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https://www.endalznow.org/news/165-still-alice-art-imitating-life-with-alzheimers-disease

by Alzheimer's Prevention Bulletin on February 28, 2015




The recently released film, "Still Alice," opens at stylish New York restaurant where Alice Howland (Julianne Moore) is celebrating her 50th birthday with her family. Her husband (Alec Baldwin) toasts her as the most beautiful, intelligent person he's ever known. A professor of Linguistics at Columbia University, Alice is accomplished, confident and happy.

Based on a novel by neuroscientist and writer, Lisa Genova, the movie "Still Alice" follows Howland's decline into early-onset Alzheimer's. It begins with unsettling memory lapses: Alice gets lost on a familiar jog...a word alludes her during an address to colleagues...she doesn't recognize the words on a syllabus for one of her classes.

Soon, cognitive tests reveal short-term memory problems and a PET scan shows amyloid plaques – a sign of Alzheimer's – in Alice's brain. A neurologist diagnoses early-onset Alzheimer's. Portraying the Struggle

"Still Alice" is presented from Alice's point of view, giving moviegoers a glimpse into what people with Alzheimer's experience. To prepare for the role, Moore spoke with people who have Alzheimer's, physicians, and other Alzheimer's experts. She also consulted with co-directors Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer, who has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and communicates via electronic tablet from his wheelchair.

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