Alzheimer s is the commonest form of dementia, a condition that denotes not only
memory loss but degeneration of all motor abilities. It has been estimated that
the incidence of Alzheimer s and other dementias among the ageing in India is as
high as 47 per cent.
This is the story of Krishna Bhattacharya s fight against Alzheimer s, written
by her husband. It is a frank, sensitive and unsentimental account of inadequate
medical knowledge; of the importance of care; the ethics of care-giving; and the
confusing, heartrending, often frustrating, but also uplifting, experience of
living with a loved one who is living with Alzheimer s.