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Still Alice is the story of fifty year old Alice Howland who has been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Nothing strikes such fear in the hearts of people over fifty than the thought of getting Alzheimer's. Unlike cancer, which now has many treatments and even cures available, there is no cure for Alzheimer's Disease.
When we first meet Alice she and her husband, John, are professors at Harvard University and parents of three adult children. Alice gets mildly concerned when she can' ...more
When we first meet Alice she and her husband, John, are professors at Harvard University and parents of three adult children. Alice gets mildly concerned when she can' ...more
This is an amazing book about Dr. Alice Howland, Ph.D., a fifty year old Harvard professor who is diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimer's Disease. The unique part of this story is that it is told from the point of Alice; starting with the frustrating forgetfulness of where her cell phone is all the way through the devastating loss of her children's names. While Alice and her family are a fictional characters, it is all too easy to imagine many people experiencing the same thoughts and feeling por
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I read this in advance of seeing Lisa Genova this month at the Speaker Series. Listening to Alice, as her Alzheimer's disease progressed, was painful and illuminating. The writing was brilliant, as I witnessed reactions of family and friends to Alice's disease through her eyes. This book reminded me of The Rosie Project and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, as you learn about a disease, in this case Alzheimer's, by being in the mind of the afflicted. I felt the book gave practic
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Jun 19, 2013
Linda C
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it was amazing
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Alice Howland, tenured professor of cognitive psychology at Harvard, begins to notice some memory problems and not the typical kind for people aged 50. When her doctor eliminates some of the basic causes and wants to follow a wait and see approach, she insists on seeing a neurologist. Even so, when she finds she has early-onset Alzheimer’s she is floored. It takes several more tests and another doctor’s visit several months later before she can tell her husband and then her 3 adult children.
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"Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer's disease. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. In turns hea
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4.25 stars
Alice is a 50-year old Harvard professor of psychology who is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's. She and her family have to learn to live with this degenerative disease, knowing that Alice will only get worse.
This was really good. Told from Alice's viewpoint, as she slowly starts forgetting things, you really feel scared, from her point of view. It shows how it affects, not only her life at home, but in her work at Harvard. It's frustrating to see how it affects her family, and t ...more
Alice is a 50-year old Harvard professor of psychology who is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's. She and her family have to learn to live with this degenerative disease, knowing that Alice will only get worse.
This was really good. Told from Alice's viewpoint, as she slowly starts forgetting things, you really feel scared, from her point of view. It shows how it affects, not only her life at home, but in her work at Harvard. It's frustrating to see how it affects her family, and t ...more
Jan 02, 2016
Barbara M
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it was amazing
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harvard-university
Audio book. This was a very well done audio, I really enjoyed listening to it and couldn't wait to get back to the story. The story of Dr. Alice Howland was such a learning experience to me. She was certainly way too young to develop Alzheimer's and most likely her intelligence masked its onset. Her insight into what was happening to her really made the story. I certainly wondered where the author got the research that went into this fiction. It seemed too real to be a fiction.
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Dec 16, 2013
Meredith Estes
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Mar 24, 2015
Jenn
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Apr 24, 2015
Stacy
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Aug 06, 2015
Alma Tello
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Dec 03, 2015
Ev
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Jul 23, 2019
Michelle H
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it was amazing
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Sep 25, 2016
Tsvetomira Haydukova
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Jan 29, 2017
Sushicat
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