Still Alice: Modern Day View Of Alzheimer's Disease

The movie I watched for assignment 1 was Still Alice. This movie represents a modern day view of Alzheimer’s Disease and the rapid deterioration and destruction that this disease can have one’s life and family. The main character Alice was a professor of linguistics at Columbia, at the age of mid to late forties, she started to notice that she was losing her train of thought and her memories. She was finally diagnosed with the deadly early onset Alzheimer’s that was passed through her family genes. Within nine months of the diagnoses she lost the ability to think, to remember important dates and people, and became a hollow shell of herself. Overall, I enjoyed this movie, it was heartbreaking however, the story line does incorporate real facts about what happens to one’s self and family when one is diagnosed with this disease. Still Alice truly captured “the art of losing” in a sense that many in the United States have witness or are aware of.

In the movie Alice had a hard remembering where objects and certain rooms are located in her built environment interior and exterior. There were a couple of scenes that indicated the true depth of the problem she had with her environment. The first major scene happen early onset in the film, Alice was running her daily route around Columbia University when suddenly she forgot where
This movie shows you a very realistic picture of the devastating factors that come with this disease. It also showcased the disease in a younger character making the disease a little more relatable for everyone. This disease is rapid in our world right now. Many of us will know or will be the person who encounter this disease later on in our lives. I think it’s time to start to understanding how to monitor the environment to best suit the person with the diseases in the early stages to create some normality before all hope is