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Portrait of an Alzheimer's Patient (7:15)
Robert Griegoliet - Villa Park, IL
In the last week before my Grandfather went into an Alzheimer's care facility after 10 years of home care, I made this short documentary. It was designed to highlight the symptoms of this disease in a touching way.
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Nice Job
I have grandparents in the early stages of this disease and its hard to watch them go through this. This was video was very well done and captures everything that is going on. Thanx.
Very good
Too much over-writing - I wanted to see what he was doing. But they captured the heart of the disease, and the sadness of knowing you're trapped in it. A good summary of a tragic disease.
Alzheimer
Alzheimer has always frightened me.To see this film has given me the relief that is not so terrible and we can live with and it is possible to overcome that
Thank you
Agreed
I agree, presenting symptoms is often times a dangerous practice. Most psychology classes nowadays even preface the class by telling people not to self-diagnose. However many people may diagnose incorrectly, I think that there'll be a couple that see something that they had not seen before and different methods and treatments can be applied accordingly.
Portrait of an Alzheimer's Patient
I think this one is important because it gives the viewer an overall picture of the symptoms of Alzheimer's.
My only fear is that it will propel some viewers to the belief (sometimes mistaken)that THEIR relative is suffering from Alzheimer's just because they exhibit a few of those symptoms. As in: "yep, that's what Grandpa's got! We have to move him into a facility!"