I think we’re starting to see the push back on aging and memory loss. In Carved in Sand, Catherine Ramin Jakobson provocatively notes that when our eyes begin to change in our 40s and 50s, we reach for reading glasses. But when we start to notice memory loss, we simultaneously panic and joke, but don’t seek out solutions. Now with Peter Whitehouse and Danny George’s The Myth of Alzheimer’s, Martha Weinman Lear’s Where Did I Leave My Glasses? Carved in Sand, and several articles like this one from today’s Chicago Trib, I think we’re just starting to see the change. Some memory loss with age is normal. And there are things you can do about it. Might it help lessen the panic and stigma of dementia?
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