Still Alice: Early Onset Familial Alzheimer's Disease
The movie I chose is “Still Alice”. This movie does not concentrate on aging as much as the disease that many aging individuals encounter.
Alice is a 50 years married linguistics proffesor with three children who is diagnosed with early onset familial Alzheimer’s disease.The movie shows Alice as disease proggreses and how it affects family as well. Two of her children decide to do a genetical test for Alzheirmers. However, only her oldest daughter who is pregnant tests positive, fortunatly her twin unborn babies test negative.
At the onset of the disease Alice is feeling ashamed and wishes to have cancer instead. As a precaution she makes a list of simple questions and a recorded video where she instructs herself how to commit suicide if she
Alice is a 50 years married linguistics proffesor with three children who is diagnosed with early onset familial Alzheimer’s disease.The movie shows Alice as disease proggreses and how it affects family as well. Two of her children decide to do a genetical test for Alzheirmers. However, only her oldest daughter who is pregnant tests positive, fortunatly her twin unborn babies test negative.
At the onset of the disease Alice is feeling ashamed and wishes to have cancer instead. As a precaution she makes a list of simple questions and a recorded video where she instructs herself how to commit suicide if she