Dr. Moe Anderson's Podcast

  Alzheimer's disease is more than a news story for me. It's very personal. My paternal grandmother was diagnosed with  in 1980. It changed my life and my perception of aging with options. Alzheimer's is a brain disease that progresses slowly causing problems with memory, language and disorientation. My grandmother successfully hid her mental lapses from us for a while. Then, one day, she almost burned her house down because she forgot about the food frying on her gas burner. Her doctor insisted the family be informed about her condition.  As fate would so decree, the closest living relative was me. I am the only child of an only child. My biological father and grandfather died before I was promoted to middle school.  At the time of my grandmother's diagnosis, I was a teenager living with the parents I still call Mom and Dad. I remember traveling to grandmother's house with my mother. We convened in the kitchen around the square table with the yellow Formica top and ribbed aluminum trim. The room smelled fain