title: Love Is Ageless: Stories About Alzheimer's Disease (2nd Edition)
author:  Jessica Bryan 
description: "Love Is Ageless" is a labor of love, and should be added to the lay libraries of Alzheimer's support groups. -- <i>Journal of the American Geriatrics Society</i><br /><br />All lives are stories. Our work is to make them as meaningful as these. -- <i>Bernie Siegel, M.D.</i><br /><br />Families seeking support in their struggle with Alzheimer's disease will find comfort and understanding in these pages." -- <i>Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D.</i><br /><br />Few books deal with the experience of Alzheimer's disease so intimately and from such a variety of perspectives. -- <i>National Institute on Aging</i><br /><br />Few books deal with the experience of Alzheimers disease so intimately and from such a variety of perspectives. -- <i>National Institute on Aging</i><br /><br />Integrates the guilt and the rage with the love and caring...puts a human face on Alzheimer's disease. -- <i>CNS News, September 2002</i><br /><br />This book is a labor of love and should be added to the libraries used by Alzheimers support groups. -- <i>Journal of the American Geriatrics Society</i><br /><br />This book is clearly fundamental reading for anyone facing Alzheimer's - either as a patient or caregiver. R.W. Griffith, M.D. -- <i>Healthandage.com, November 2002</i><br /><br />This is by far the best book of its sort that I have had the honor to read. -- <i>Stephen Levine</i><br /><br />You can learn more from this book about what it's like to be a caregiver than in any scholarly study. -- <i>Owner, Orca Books, Olympia, WA, August 2002</i>
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  ## Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Title Page](xhtml/title.xhtml#tit)
  
  
  * [Copyright Notice](xhtml/copyrightnotice.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Dedication](xhtml/dedication.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Introduction: The Disease of the Century](xhtml/introduction.xhtml#int)
  
  
  * [Part 1: Alzheimer's Unbound](xhtml/part1.xhtml#pt1)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [1\. A Peculiar Disease of the Cerebral Cortex](xhtml/chapter1.xhtml#ch1)
  
  
  * [2\. No One Says No to Len Kurland](xhtml/chapter2.xhtml#ch2)
  
  
  * [3\. Accurate but Not Presumptuous](xhtml/chapter3.xhtml#ch3)
  
  
  * [4\. The Olympics of Pharmacokinetics](xhtml/chapter4.xhtml#ch4)
  
  
  * [5\. The Republic of Alzheimer's Disease](xhtml/chapter5.xhtml#ch5)
  
  
  * [6\. A Young Man in a Hurry](xhtml/chapter6.xhtml#ch6)
  
  
  * [7\. How Do You Cast a Broken Brain?](xhtml/chapter7.xhtml#ch7)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Part 2: The Birth of Alzheimer's Disease](xhtml/part2.xhtml#pt2)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [8\. The Old Woman in the Tower](xhtml/chapter8.xhtml#ch8)
  
  
  * [9\. Alois Alzheimer: An Unwitting Revolutionary](xhtml/chapter9.xhtml#ch9)
  
  
  * [10\.