Her Strategies for Living Day to Day with Alzheimer's

Alzheimer’s is a bizarre disease. Many fear it more than cancer, stroke, heart disease, and other illnesses. To be told you have Alzheimer’s casts many of us into despair. “It’s the beginning of the end,” many feel. We certainly felt that when my wife was diagnosed two decades ago with early onset at the young age of 50; our three children were still in high school and college.

Our world wasn’t turned upside down; it imploded before us.

Geri Taylor somehow sees her early-stage Alzheimer’s differently. She seems to have taken it in stride—as yet one more of life’s obstacles to hurdle. “Mrs. Taylor was wired to absorb adversity,” writes The New York Times, “and she pictured Alzheimer’s differently, with gumption and defiance and through a dispassionate, unblinking lens.”

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