The Alzheimer's Solution: How Today's Care Is Failing Millions and How We Can Do Better

"The solution research neurologist Kosik and medical journalist Clegg propose reads like the opening round in what they clearly hope will become a national dialogue about optimizing treatment for people with dementia, including Alzheimer's disease...Cogent, thorough, and convincing."---Booklist

"Ken Kosik has seen the shortcomings of modern medicine from the front lines, in this book, he and coauthor Ellen Clegg pull together an impressive amount of information about the diverse forces that drive drug development and medicine and have led to a system that fails to meet the needs of the burgeoning numbers of people facing cognitive impaiment and Alzheimer's disease. Their account is enlivened by true stories of families devastated by this disease, who are paying the human costs of our inadequate system. Most compelling are Kosik's experiences in medellin, Colombia.... Kosik observed how patients remain part of their communities, rather than being hidden away in nursing homes... These experiences inspired Kosik to found a new model for a community-based cognitive health center in Santa Barbara, California. His vision is not only to reintegrate the medical and health services that have become so fragmented under our current system but also to repair the nift between patients and their communities."---June Kinoshita Alzheimer Research Forum

"If you think getting old is simply about losing neurons, read this book. Many things change and the good news is that by realizing the comptexities of aging, there are many ways to make life pleasant and rewarding. Ken Kosik and Ellen Clegg capture this idea with brilliance and verve."---Michael S. Gazzaniga, PhD Director of the Sage Center for the Study of Mind at the University of California, Santa Barabara, and director of the Law and Neuroscience Project

"Outstanding neurologist and brain scientist Kenneth S. Kosik and superb science writer Ellen Clegg provide a creative and Farsighted discussion that confronts and analyzes the problems that face individuals, their families, and the American healthcare system in dealing with dementia...This inspiring, comprehensive new approach to the most serious medical problem of our time is a must read."---Eric Kandel, MD Professor at Columbia University, Fred Kavli Professor and director at the kavli Institute for Brain Science, and senior investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Kenneth S. Kosik, MD, holds the Harriman Chair in Neuroscience in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and codirects the Neuroscience Resarch institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the executive director of the center for Cognitive Fitness and Innovative Therapies. Formerly, Dr. Kosik was Professor of neurology and neuroscience at the Harvard Medical School Until 2004.
Ellen Clegg is the the author of ChemoBrain: How Cancer Therapies Can Affect Your Mind, She is managing editor for communications platforms at the Broad Institute of MIT adn Harvard, a biomedical research institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Previously, she was deputy managing editor of news operations for the Boston Globe. Her Prior positions at the Globe include Sunday editor and health and science editor.