alzheimer's disease

Brothers Dan and Dog DeMoe discover that six of their siblings were at risk for Alzheimer's disease upon learing about Doug's diagnosis at the age of forty-three.

Alice Howland, a fifty-year-old cognitive psychology professor at Harvard, starts to experience early-onset Alzheimer's, initially becoming disoriented around town and eventually losing track of rooms in her home before resigning from Harvard and attempting to hold onto the severe change in her life.

Wealthy Catherine West is surrounded by beautiful things in her Manhattan apartment, but she is lonely and fears she will never have a family. She trusts no one, especially after relationships with two men who only wanted her money. Then she meets William Stockton who is her perfect match, and their parents knew each other years ago. However, Catherine's mother who is suffering from Alzheimer's seems to know something about William's past. Catherine must decide if she will risk the happiness she's finally found to dig into the past and uncover the truth.

"Severkin is an elf who slinks through the shadows of Wellhall's spiraling stone towers, plundering ancient ruins and slaying mystical monstrosities with ease. He's also a character in a video game--a character that twelve-year-old Nick Reeves plays when he needs a break fromthe real world. And lately, Nick has really needed a break. His mother had an "incident" at school last year, and her health has taken a turn for the worse. Nick is convinced his mother's illness has been misdiagnosed, but no one believes him. His only escape is the online world of Wellhall, where, as the elf character Severkin, he can face any problem. But when Nick finds himself fighting alongside another elf who reminds him of someone he knows in real life, his worlds begin to collide..."--Publisher.

"In his old age Grandpa has become confused. He believes he is back in World War II, when he was an RAF Spitfire pilot. Only one person can understand him: his grandson Jack. When Grandpa is sent to Twilight Towers--an old folk's home run by sinister Matron Swine--it's up to Jack and Grandpa to plot a daring escape. Little do they know, the wicked Matron is on to them ... "--Dust jacket.

Desperate to escape their confining lives, Corrina and Hendrix hatch a plot to drive Hendrix's grandfather from Los Angeles to New York and fulfill his dying wish of returning to the hill where he first kissed his wife. With their family, doctors, and the police on their trail, Corrina and Hendrix will discover if his grandpa's stories about life and love are really true.

Life has just become very complicated for seventeen-year-old Katie; her father walked out a year ago, her mother is stressed out, her brother is a "special needs" teenager, and she is caring for the maternal grandmother she has never met, who is suffering from Alzheimer's--and Katie has a secret of her own that she cannot reveal.

After an injury ends former star pitcher Peter Friedman's athletic dreams, he concentrates on photography which leads him to a girlfriend, new fame as a high school sports photographer, and a deeper relationship with the beloved grandfather who, when he realizes he is becoming senile, gives Pete all of his professional camera gear.

Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water.

Introduces congnitive disorders, discussing the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and describing treatment options.