Rebroadcast: His father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. He went looking for answers.

重播:他的父亲被诊断出患有阿尔茨海默氏症。 他去寻找答案。

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2024-05-03

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This is an episode from our archives. Around 2013, author and cardiologist Sandeep Jauhar started noticing some worrying changes in his father. He would forget the code to their safe; he couldn’t remember what he did the day before and would get lost driving home. Eventually, his father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. In his new book, My Father’s Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s, Jauhar chronicles the challenges of caring for a sick parent and explains where medicine is today when it comes to treatment for this incurable illness.
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  • Hey there, it's Shemitha.

  • Here I am still out on maternity leave.

  • But here's a conversation that really stuck with me.

  • It's about memory, family and our understanding of the human brain.

  • I hope you enjoy it.

  • This is in conversation from Apple News.

  • I'm Shemitah Basu.

  • Today, a story of Alzheimer's and one son's search for answers.

  • For almost his entire life, Sandeep Jahar's father Prem Johar had been a scientist.

  • One of his favorite statements to me growing up is non science is nonsense.

  • Sandeep,

  • who is a medical doctor himself remembers his father spending long days in the lab doing research

  • and writing papers.

  • He was a take charge kind of guy, always striving to succeed.

  • And he loved spending time with his family, his three kids.

  • He'd cut fruit for us, you know, that was like his thing that was sort of his love languages.

  • That's such a like Asian parent thing too.

  • So the plate of cut fruit just pushed your way.

  • But then around 2013, Sandeep started to notice some worrying changes in his father.

  • At first he wasn't sure what was going on.