After 15 years, Sarasota’s Roskamp Institute is closing in on a drug that may help cure this devastating disease.
Author: David Ball
Photographer: Jenny Acheson
It’s called “the long good-bye” by Alzheimer’s disease sufferers and their caregivers—that heart-wrenching struggle of watching a loved one deteriorate one day at a time. First it’s names and faces that go. They forget who you are. They forget who they are. Eventually, the sufferer loses most or all cognitive ability and becomes a lifeless shell of the person you once knew.
