消失在痴呆症中

The story of a family that loses many of its members young to an inherited condition explores grief, enduring love and medical hope, says Carissa Wong BY THE time Barb got the letter with her test results, she had already seen her mother and five of her nine siblings gradually “disappear”. From their forties, they had started to act in unusual ways: they had ignored their children, become unrecognisable to their spouses and lost all sense of social norms. It made her very nervous about her own fate. She knew she had a 50 per cent chance of inheriting the same gene for dementia that had upended the lives of her loved ones. …