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How I'm preparing to get Alzheimer's

Alanna Shaikh · TED

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About

When faced with a parent suffering from Alzheimer's, most of us respond with denial ("It won't happen to me") or extreme efforts at prevention. But global health expert and TED Fellow Alanna Shaikh sees it differently. She's taking three concrete steps to prepare for the moment -- should it arrive -- when she herself gets Alzheimer's disease.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDGlobal 2012
Speaker
Alanna Shaikh
Year
2012
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Biology, Medicine and health, Psychology and the brain, Philosophy
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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