Went to see this film last night. Very good performance by Julianne Moore who plays the part of Alice, a Columbia University professor, aged 50, at the beginning of the film is diagnosed with the onset of early Alzheimers. As the story progresses she gradually loses more of her faculties, starting with not being able to remember words, or where she is when she is out running. Sadly her descent into this illness is rapid and at the end she can barely form words. As well as the loss of her much loved career, the film also deals with her husband and grown up children and how their mother's regression affects them. The elder daughter sadly finds out that the Alzheimers her mother has is passed through the maternal line and she will also get it. Not a happy subject, very moving, I think Julianne Moore deserved her Best Actress Oscar this year.
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Close to home here too.
A woman who gave so much to our local community, running Guides and the Duke of Edinburgh's Award for the young people, died just before Christmas in her early sixties, after being diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's about 6 years ago. 
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