美国中部的一场医学谜团：一个家族接连罹患罕见痴呆症

As a rare form of dementia claims one sibling after another, a journalist captures the profound costs of caregiving Nancy Berlinger Dementia is nearly always a family disease, because most dementia caregivers are family members of the person in need of care. In The Vanishing Family, journalist Robert Kolker provides an account of what dementia caregiving is like that is as breathtaking as the scientific “quest to end dementia” that the subtitle proclaims. This is Kolker’s second book about a large postwar American family with bad medical luck. In his 2020 bestseller Hidden Valley Road, six sons in a family of 12 are diagnosed with schizophrenia. …