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🗓️ 8 June 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Around 2013, author and cardiologist Sandeep Jauhar started noticing some worrying changes in his father. He would forget the code to their safe; he couldn’t remember what he did the day before and would get lost driving home. Eventually, his father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. In his new book, My Father’s Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s, Jauhar chronicles the challenges of caring for a sick parent and explains where medicine is today when it comes to treatment for this incurable illness.
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0:52.0 | I'm Shimita Bassu. Today, a story of Alzheimer's and One Sons |
0:56.8 | search for answers. For almost his entire life, |
1:10.0 | his entire life, Sundit Jahar's father, Prem Jahar, had been a scientist. |
1:13.4 | One of his favorite statements to me growing up is non-science is nonsense. |
1:18.6 | Sandeep, who is a medical doctor himself, remembers his father spending long days in the lab, doing research and writing papers. |
1:26.0 | He was a take charge kind of guy, always striving to succeed. And he loved spending time with his family, his three kids. |
1:34.0 | He'd cut fruit for us, you know, that was like his thing. That was sort of his love |
1:38.1 | languages. That's such a like Asian parent thing too. Oh, geez. So, so much. |
1:43.0 | The plate of cut fruit just pushed your way. |
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