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Alzheimer's, Memory, and Being

Alzheimer's disease has been described as "the great unlearning," a "disease of memory," a "demise of consciousness." But what does it reveal about the nature of human identity? What remains when memory unravels? And how might such insights help Alzheimer's sufferers themselves?

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The photographer with his 98-year-old father, who lost his short-term memory. As an act of remembering, the son is documenting his final time with his father as an online journal titled "Days with My Father."

+ (photo: © Phillip Toledano)