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

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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2023-06-09

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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.

  • We're working on a couple of episodes about big life transitions and we want to hear from you.

  • Tell us about a major life transition that you went through and how it changed you.

  • It can be deciding to move to a new place, changing jobs, or even losing a loved one.

  • How were you different before and after?

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  • 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.