B. Smith. (2016). Before I Forget: Love, Hope, Help, and Acceptance in Our Fight Against Alzheimer's. Harmony/Rodale.

B. Smith. 2016. Before I Forget: Love, Hope, Help, and Acceptance in Our Fight Against Alzheimer's. Harmony/Rodale.

B. Smith, Before I Forget: Love, Hope, Help, and Acceptance in Our Fight Against Alzheimer's. Harmony/Rodale, 2016.

B. Smith. Before I Forget: Love, Hope, Help, and Acceptance in Our Fight Against Alzheimer's. Harmony/Rodale, 2016.

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“A powerful portrait of Alzheimer’s…marked by strong emotions and often bleak honesty.”
—The Washington Post
“The vulnerability, courage, and honesty in Before I Forget are heart-opening. Fear can be paralyzing…yet B. and Dan beautifully demonstrate that there is a different way to approach this stealthy invader. Alzheimer’s needs to come out of the shadows, and this book is an important step.” 
—Maria Shriver
Restaurateur, magazine publisher, celebrity chef, and nationally known lifestyle maven, B. Smith is struggling at 66 with a tag she never expected to add to that string: Alzheimer's patient. She’s not alone. Every 67 seconds someone newly develops it, and millions of lives are affected by its aftershocks.
 
B. and her husband, Dan, working with Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Shnayerson, unstintingly share their unfolding story. Crafted in short chapters that interweave their narrative with practical and helpful advice, readers learn about dealing with Alzheimer's day-to-day challenges: the family realities and tensions, ways of coping, coming research that may tip the scale, as well as lessons learned along the way.
 
At its heart, Before I Forget is a love story: illuminating a love of family, life, and hope.

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     "...An enduring love story."

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   • source: Maria Shriver
   • content: "The vulnerability, courage, and honesty in Before I Forget are heart-opening. Fear can be paralyzing...yet B. and Dan beautifully demonstrate that there is a different way to approach this stealthy invader. Alzheimer's needs to come out of the shadows, and this book is an important step."
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   • source: Dr. David Satcher, Former Surgeon General of the United States
   • content: "What an amazing couple and what an amazing book! It is medically and scientifically accurate, and yet places this devastating disease in the context of a beautiful and intimate relationship. We must do better as a community, in our families and within our government in responding to this disease. African-Americans are especially called upon to get more involved in the research as this disease disproportionately impacts us."
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   • source: Meryl Comer, president of the Geoffrey Beene Foundation Alzheimer's Initiative and author of Slow Dancing With A Stranger: Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimer's
   • content: "B. and her husband Dan made it to the top by breaking through societal barriers. Now they are facing down her heart- breaking diagnosis and fighting to live each day with love and dignity. Read Before I Forget to understand how Alzheimer's tests both patient and family. Admire their courage, honesty, and how they use their celebrity to advocate for research and prevention."
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   • source: From the Foreword by Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D.
   • content: "For those who have Alzheimer's now, there are lifestyle measures that may allay some symptoms of the disease – measures that B. and Dan report on in this helpful and poignant book. There is also so much that family caregivers can learn about how to deal with Alzheimer's and its many emotional challenges, hardships and, if one is looking, the state of grace it sometimes brings."
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   • source: Neil Kerwin, Ph.D., President, American University, and Professor of Public Administration and Policy
   • content: "This book is an act of courage and generosity. Courage is reflected both in the extraordinary strength Dan and B. have displayed over the course of the disease and their willingness to be honest--at times brutally so--about its progression. This honesty results in an intelligent and accessible work of insight, wisdom, and advice to all who will be touched in some way by this terrible disease. The "Lessons Learned" sections would alone make it required reading. It is a clarion call for better research, better treatment, and above all else better understanding of one of the great health care crises of our time. I commend this to everyone because all of us have or will be touched by this disease. Before I Forget is destined to be a landmark in the conquest of Alzheimer's."
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   • source: Kimberly Williams-Paisley, actor and author of Where the Light Gets In
   • content: "A brave and important story, told with candor, love and useful information. Before I Forget offers a real glimpse into what Alzheimer's actually looks like in a loved one, and sheds a hopeful light on why this disease needs much more research, funding, and attention."
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   • source: George and Trish Vradenburg, Co-Founders, USAgainstAlzheimer's
   • content: "Before I Forget, Dan Gasby's valentine to his wife, B. Smith, courageously lifts the veil that shields those with Alzheimer's. It is moving testimony to the power of love and the true meaning of what "in sickness and health" really means. Before I Forget is, quite simply, unforgettable."
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   • source: The Washington Post
   • content: "A powerful portrait of Alzheimer's...marked by strong emotions and often bleak honesty."
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    • content: "They share an inspirational message of hope while issuing a rallying a cry to the African-American community which suffers from Alzheimer's at over twice the rate of whites. Above all, the memoir is a reaffirmation of a couple's undying love..."
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      Starred review from November 23, 2015
      With the assistance of Vanity Fair contributing editor Shnayerson, spouses Smith (a restaurateur and model) and Gasby (a marketing exec) explain the slow, grinding stages of Alzheimer’s disease as it is affecting Smith. The couple recently went public about Smith’s degenerative disease after a revealing Today Show segment and a frantic missing-person search that turned the East Coast upside down. Over the course of Gasby’s loving narrative as the chief caregiver and Smith’s compelling inserts as the courageous patient, they take the reader through the early stages of forgetfulness, the horror of the diagnosis, and the mood swings and inappropriate behavior of the later symptoms. The doctors try to keep the couple abreast of drug trials and new research in the pipeline, but acknowledge it’s an uphill fight. However, underneath the grim march of the disease, there is an enduring love story of care and adoration, anchored by their campaign for new funding for research into possible cures.

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      November 1, 2015
      

      Diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's at age 64, Smith found herself in a role she never pictured. The author gained popularity in the 1970s as a supermodel, and in the 1980s pursued a career as a celebrity chef and restaurateur. Currently well known as African American lifestyle doyenne, B., alongside husband Dan Gasby, chronicles her family's journey though her Alzheimer's diagnosis and beyond. Part memoir and part narrative self-help guide, the book comprises ten chapters, moving mostly between Sag Harbor, NY, and New York City from fall 2010 to early 2015. Each concludes with a "Lessons Learned" section offering a summary of takeaway points. Helpful background on the condition combines with heartfelt recounts of the family's story, resulting in a tale of love, hope, and optimism. The personal writing makes this memoir approachable, practical, and relatable. VERDICT Recommended for patients and families struggling with memory disorders.--Carolann Curry, Mercer Univ. Lib., Macon, GA

      Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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      December 1, 2015
      Of the estimated five million-plus Americans currently diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, some 200,000 are afflicted with what is called early-onset Alzheimer's. That is, the deteriorating cognitive disease shows its first symptoms before a person turns 65. Such is the misfortune of glamorous, intelligent, creative restaurateur and cookbook-author Smith. In what to the layperson, given the advanced phase of her disease, seem remarkably lucid essays, Smith discusses what it feels like to stand by as one's memory and former life begin to slip away. These accounts are interspersed with passages written by her husband, best friend, and business partner, Gasby, as he comes to terms with lifestyle adjustments made necessary by his true love's illness. Neither person makes any bones about the situation. It is what it is: the moodiness, the depression, the angry outbursts, all uncharacteristic and yet now commonplace. The couple is loving, insightful, and, most importantly, instructive about the realities of life with Alzheimer's. The included tips and recommendations plus a list of resources will all be helpful for patients and their families.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)

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—The Washington Post
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—Maria Shriver
Restaurateur, magazine publisher, celebrity chef, and nationally known lifestyle maven, B. Smith is struggling at 66 with a tag she never expected to add to that string: Alzheimer's patient. She’s not alone. Every 67 seconds someone newly develops it, and millions of lives are affected by its aftershocks.
 
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