Still alice

Description:

Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer's disease.

subjects: Women college teachers,  Alzheimer's disease,  Fiction,  Women teachers,  Activities of Daily Living,  Alzheimer Disease,  Colleges and universities,  Fictional Works,  Faculty,  Women,  Large type books,  nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2009-01-25,  New York Times bestseller,  Fiction, psychological,  College teachers, fiction,  Cambridge (mass.), fiction,  Memory,  Maladie d'Alzheimer,  Romans, nouvelles,  Femmes,  Ziekte van Alzheimer

People: Alice Howland (fictitious character),  John Howland (fictitious character),  Anna Howland (fictitious character),  Tom Howland (fictitious character),  Lydia Howland (fictitious character)

Places: Cambridge (Mass.),  Harvard University,  Chatham (Mass.),  New York (N.Y.),  Stanford University,  Los Angeles (Calif.)

Times: 2003-2005