The Paradox of Alzheimers: How Washington Turns Abundance into Scarcity–And How Silicon Valley Can Fix That

The image accompanying this blog is a painting by Lezley Saar from an exhibition section titled “Madness in the Gaze.”

After the publication of my essay in The Georgia Review/Slate, Abigail T. Fox in mentions me as follows in Breitbart.com: “Saunders’s story is a personal tragedy and a societal calamity.A woman loses her mind at a relatively young age, and her family – and the rest of us – pay for her care.” No, the bluntness doesn’t hurt or offend me. Read in context, the quote from her article makes absolute sense: using my situation as an example, Fox supports her argument that “every news item about human health has two dimensions: a personal dimension and a societal dimension.” She continues: “That is the story of Gerda Saunders. Now here’s the story of the rest of us.”