The gripping memoir of one critical year in the life of Ann Davidson and her husband, Julian, a prominent physiology professor at Stanford Medical School who has Alzheimer's disease. These 56 vignettes each tell a complete story, progressing from Ann and Julian's initial confusion and anger through adjustments and moments of humor and joy to increasing acceptance and an odd sort of peace.

CBS News correspondent Barry Petersen tells the tender story of his wife's battle with Early Onset Alzheimer's.

If you love someone with Alzheimer’s . . . this book is for you. Written with caregivers in mind, this personal story documents one family’s journey through the stages of Alzheimer’s with their mother, sharing their experiences and frustrations as well as their joys and love. This is a mirror of the Eulers’ daily lives, designed to support and uplift other families working through similar situations. How can caregivers move past feelings of guilt and shame? What legal, medical, and social resources are available to them? How can onlookers, friends and family of someone with Alzheimer’s care for themselves, or help--even a little? Will they ever find peace? Dieter has some answers which he now wants to share with you.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful memoir of a love that leads two people to find a courageous way to part—and a woman’s struggle to go forward in the face of loss—that “enriches the reader’s life with urgency and gratitude” (The Washington Post) “A pleasure to read . . . Rarely has a memoir about death been so full of life. . . . Bloom has a talent for mixing the prosaic and profound, the slapstick and the serious.”—USA Today ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR Amy Bloom began to notice changes in her husband, Brian: He retired early from a new job he loved; he withdrew from close friendships; he talked mostly about the past. Suddenly, it seemed there was a glass wall between them, and their long walks and talks stopped. Their world was altered forever when an MRI confirmed what they could no longer ignore: Brian had Alzheimer’s disease. Forced to confront the truth of the diagnosis and its impact on the future he had envisioned, Brian was determined to die on his feet, not live on his knees. Supporting each other in their last journey together, Brian and Amy made the unimaginably difficult and painful decision to go to Dignitas, an organization based in Switzerland that empowers a person to end their own life with dignity and peace. In this heartbreaking and surprising memoir, Bloom sheds light on a part of life we so often shy away from discussing—its ending. Written in Bloom’s captivating, insightful voice and with her trademark wit and candor, In Love is an unforgettable portrait of a beautiful marriage, and a boundary-defying love.

"Working with Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Shnayerson, B. and her husband Dan share B.'s unfolding story on dealing with early-onset Alzheimer's. Crafted in short chapters that interweave their narrative with ... advice, readers learn in small bites about dealing with Alzheimer's disease's day-to-day challenges, the family tensions, and ways of coping, as well as gain tips on diet and exercise from a lifestyle maven using her decades of expertise in a new and unexpected way"--

When the last of Vivienne Ulman's four children left home, she and her husband were poised to enjoy their freedom. Then, her mother's Alzheimer's intervened. In Alzheimer's; A Love Story, Ulman records with tender lyricism and searing honesty the progress of her mother's Alzheimer's, her own grief over the gradual loss of her beloved mother, and...