This month, Bill Peak, the Library Guy, talks with Dr. Jason Karlawish about his new book, The Problem of Alzheimer’s.
Dr. Karlawish is a Professor of Medicine, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, and Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania and Co-Director of the Penn Memory Center, where he cares for Alzheimer’s patients and their caregivers. He is a leading authority—perhaps the leading authority—on Alzheimer’s. He is also a terrific writer and storyteller.
Bill, whose father was a doctor who eventually developed Alzheimer’s, learned a lot from both the book and its author.
This video is approximately forty minutes in length. For more information about the Talbot County Free Library please go here.
A podcast version is available here:
Julia Murphy says
Mr. Peak,
Thank you, thank you, thank you! So very glad you had that interview with Dr. J. Karlawish about his book on Alzheimer’s. I lost my husband in 2004 to this disease. There are advances in this aging situation so I am hopeful for others. As one who is in her mid 80’s, I am trying to keep healthy myself and hope for my son in this regard as his grandmother also had Alzheimer’s disease!