“I DON’T know if I needed to publish it, but I definitely needed to write it,” explains Gary Lightbody of what prompted him to pen his first ever book, published yesterday by Harper Collins.

Benny, 64, has early-onset Alzheimer's disease ... they had a chance encounter at West Florida Hospital where Benny's father, a World War II veteran, was being treated after numerous strokes.

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He shared a poem he had written for his mother that he ... He also spoke about the joy of finding his father's family and being known to Ethiopians across the world and said that while he does ...

We go to the movies for all kinds of reasons. To laugh, to scream, to cheer. But sometimes, there comes a film that leaves us ...

Contributing columnist John McCaa details the final months of his father's life, and the quiet horror of dementia that affects 1 in 10 older Americans.(Michael Hogue/Staff Artist; iStock ...

This was 1975, before the current awareness of Alzheimer's, and even his doctor didn't suspect the disorder. Everyone assumed ...

For the next few years, Cotter's father lost job after job. Then, when Richard Cotter was 58, he was formally diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Paul Cotter recalls that his father was horrified ...