Alzheimer’s disease has robbed more than 5 million Americans of basic brain functions such as memory, recognition, and general awareness—not to mention severing intimate bonds with family and lifelong acquaintances. As its symptoms gradually worsen so does its impact on general quality of life as loved...
Read MoreMeryl Comer talked about her book, Slow Dancing with a Stranger: Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimer’s, in which she reports on the effects of Alzheimer’s, the degenerative brain disease that affects 5.4 million Americans and 44 million people globally. In the book, the...
Read MoreKENSINGTON, Md. (AP) — Meryl Comer's husband vanished more than a decade ago. Yet she has remained at his side, caring for him night and day as he drifted into the darkness of Alzheimer's disease. The story of how Comer, an Emmy Award-winning former broadcast journalist...
Read MoreMERYL COMER discusses her new book, Slow Dancing With A Stranger, on News Fox 5 DC. September 18, 2014. View full video...
Read MoreWhen someone you love can no longer take care of themselves, you would likely move mountains to help them. For millions of Americans, this scenario has become a reality as they care for a loved one with Alzheimer’s. This challenge couples the emotional pain of...
Read MoreThe following is an excerpt from Meryl Comer’s recently released book Slow Dancing with a Stranger. I think most people are worried about their own risk if they have seen Alzheimer’s in their family. I worry all the time. When I walk up the steps to retrieve...
Read More11:39AM (PST) – Meryl Comer, Emmy award winning broadcast journalist, author of Slow Dancing with a Stranger, and President and CEO of the Geoffrey Beene Foundation Alzheimer’s Initiative In 2001, the woman who are about to meet was faced with an unfathomable truth. The man she...
Read MoreThe symptoms were hardly noticeable at first. In fact, had Meryl Comer not been a veteran TV news reporter, she might have missed the subtle changes in her husband’s behavior. Even then, she chalked up his sudden lack of focus and lightning-quick temper to job...
Read MoreI met Meryl Comer once, briefly, at a conference, and recall the juxtaposition of her sleek beauty and harrowing personal story: her husband, once chief of hematology and oncology at the National Institutes of Health, debilitated by early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, and her mother with the late-onset...
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