On Pluto
Subtitle: inside the mind of Alzheimer's
By: by Greg O'Brien ; foreword by Lisa Genova ; epilogue by David Shenk
Contributors: Genova, Lisa; Shenk, David, 1966-
Publisher: Codfish Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Brewster, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780975850213; 9780991340101
Subjects: Family relationships; Mental health; Patients; Alzheimer's disease; Biography
Description: For close to ten years,writer Greg O'Brien, diagnosed with Early-Onset Alzheimer's, has chronicled its progression as an embedded reporter inside the mind of this monster of a disease.  Taking detailed notes and working off cognitive reserve, O'Brien offers an illuminating blueprint of strategies, faith, and humor needed to fight this disease, a day-to-day focus on living with Alzheimer's, not dying with it.