Alzheimer's Story By Barry Petersen Summary

In the book Jan’s Story by Barry Petersen, is a love story about how Alzheimer's disease stole his wife away. He gives an insight on her job as a an newscaster and how news was reported in places such as Moscow, Bosnia, Beijing, Africa, Baghdad, Tokyo and much more. At the age of 40 she started to slowly show signs and at the age of 55 it was confirmed that it was Alzheimer's. Once that was known, my heart sank, my first reaction was of course, these lovers have to fight this and she will win this battle. It was such a wild thought, to me that even when you say in your vows that it is death due us part but then have an expiration date. And before reading this and taking this class, I actually did not know much about the disease so this was

This unforgettable fact was stated how “ten million people are unpaid caregivers for those five million with Alzheimer's.” However due to fundraising Alzheimer’s Association earned 94 billion and yet it seems this disease will spread to 16 million by 2050, so that’s 50 million people that will get this disease (Peterson,43). With that being said, the struggles for caregivers can be the anger, denial,depression, lack of emotion or conversation, social withdrawal, irritability, and more importantly, just overall, exhausting on both of you. Barry, did his best for such a long time with a caregiver until he had to put her in assisted living home. At first, this was hard for Barry and people but what Jan’s friends and family did not realize is the struggles Barry and Diane were facing, outsiders only see the Jan that they remember not what the disease has turned her