About

Spurred by time on my hands and a strong family history of Alzheimer’s disease, I began to seek answers to those questions about myself. Even after being pronounced “worried, but well” and “normal for age” by two eminent neurologists, my day-to-day difficulties remained. So, I persisted, choosing to study everything I could find about memory loss, cognitive decline, and dementia.  Initially my goal was to educate myself, as I had done countless times in my 36-year medical career on behalf of my patients. Many of those knowledge quests became publications in medical journals and newsmagazines. The more I learned, the more questions I had, and the deeper I dug into the constantly expanding medical literature. Somewhere around the 18^th month of studying, and well on my way to reviewing over 1000 published sources, I saw the need to consolidate and organize what I was learning for myself and to share it with my fellow Baby Boomers and our families. Appropriately subtitled “A Doctor’s Personal Guide to Understanding Memory Loss, Cognitive Decline and Dementia”, it is now more than 300 pages.  Supported by 535 scientific references, Aging or Alzheimer’s is to be distributed by Skyhorse Publishing in November 2024.