Facing Alzheimer's with Courage and Love

The Leonard Lopate Show | Apr 29, 2016

This is a rebroadcast from an interview that originally aired on January 20, 2016.

Celebrity chef and magazine publisher B. Smith never expected to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's at age 66. She and her husband Dan Gasby discuss how their lives have changed and offer ways to cope in Before I Forget: Love, Hope, Help, and Acceptance in Our Fight Against Alzheimer's. 

Video credit: Harmony Books, a division of Penguin Randomhouse

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