Preparing for the “Alzheimer’s Monster” To Get You

Here’s another great educational video suggestion from John Marshall Law School’s Barry Kozak. 

Unfortunately, this video is in a format that I cannot show directly here.  Nonetheless, I’m recommending it too, and providing the link.  Alanna Shaikh’s “How I’m Preparing to Get Alzheimer’s” is provocative, with  great dashes of wry humor.  She uses her father’s twelve year history of dementia as incentive to prepare herself for getting dementia.  Alanna rejects “denial” and she’s realistic about the likelihood of “prevention or cure” in her lifetime.  She talks about preparing for the “Alzheimer’s Monster.”

Listen to her practical steps to prepare. What do you think of them?  Realistic? What I appreciate is her focus on working harder to become a better person now, in hope of carrying forward that quality as a deeply engrained personality trait.  She’s echoing my own belief, based on observation, that “personality” tends to concentrate over time, with the strongest held traits lasting the longest — whether for good or ill effect.  Once the rational mind is no longer in control, those essential traits do seem to dominate.