The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer's

This discussion by members of the Noonan Family (one of three families featured on the PBS program) is offered in connection with the broadcast of The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer's. The program is of particular interest to Alzheimer's professionals and patients, their families and caregivers. In 2004, millions glimpsed the Noonan Family's love of their sister Fran on the PBS special The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer's. Their love is not the fluffy, feel good stuff of fairy tales and romance novels, but the hard working love that paves the steep, unguarded, hair-pin curves of Alzheimer's disease. The Noonans survived Alzheimer's disease once, but they live it again and again knowing that each of them has a 50/50 chance of becoming a person with Alzheimer's disease themselves. Listen to the Noonans discuss their thoughts and feelings with a Boston audience, about what might be the end of their own lives to "the memory thief".