Does the movie offer an accurate view of life as an Alzheimer's patient? One expert we talked to says yes.
"In the movie, the way [Alzheimer's] was described was correct," says J. Wesson Ashford, M.D. Ph.D., chair of the Alzheimer's Foundation of America's Memory Screening Advisory Board and afflilated clinical professor in the department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
"I have minor quibbles about the film, but 90% of the vignettes were presented extremely well," he says.
One "minor quibble" Dr. Ashford has with the movie: "Still Alice" came to an Alzheimer's diagnosis too quickly, he says.
In the film, Moore's character was worried about her memory, which led to a doctor's visit.
Typically, families have to drag the patient to see a doctor because they're displaying some signs of dementia, Dr. Ashford points out.
Alzheimer's symptoms and diagnosis
Alzheimer's disease is "an irreversible, progressive brain disease that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills, and eventually even the ability to carry out the simplest tasks," according to the National Institute on Aging. Early-onset Alzheimer's patients, who are 65 or younger, experience similar symptoms to patients who are diagnosed after age 70.
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