From The Sunday Times
A poignant accout of watching a close relative's personality gradually disappear.
As an aside on the same sad subject, a study of novelist Iris Murdoch's style revealed that her last novel, written before she was diagnosed with Alzheimers, had a considerably reduced vocabulary as compared to her previous works. Apparently she was already struggling with the onset of the disease, and abstract words are among the first to be lost.
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