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My Father's Brain: A Doctor Reckons With Alzheimer's
Season 4 · Episode 2

My Father's Brain: A Doctor Reckons With Alzheimer's

Constant Wonder · BYUradio

April 26, 202357m 43s

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Show Notes

Prem Jauhar was a world-class agricultural scientist—an inspiration to his son Sandeep, our guest, who became a cardiologist. When the elderly father Prem started behaving oddly, Sandeep and his two siblings grew frustrated and confused. It’s a classic family story of grown children struggling together to help a parent beset with Alzheimer’s. A beautiful father-son bond, established early on when young Sandeep would help Prem tend his beloved garden, manifests itself at the end of Prem’s life in tender exchanges between a now childlike father and a grieving son. Everyone will have something profound to gain from this episode of Constant Wonder. Guest: Sandeep Jauhar, MD, PhD, Director of the Heart Failure Program at Long Island Jewish Hospital; author of "My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's"; contributing opinion writer for The New York Times Find Sandeep online to explore more of his work: https://sandeepjauhar.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sandeepjauhar/ X/Twitter: https://x.com/sjauhar