Living with Alzheimer's Film Project

A group of older ladies with Alzheimer’s influence changes within their community.

Nicola seeks to connect to her dying mother, who lingers at the end of her life from dementia. Meanwhile, another woman, Kimi, is looking for the birth-mother she never knew. As these women grapple with the presence and absence of their respective mothers, they must face an uncertain future.

After a year abroad, college student Phoebe returns home to visit her beloved grandma Eleanor for her birthday. Phoebe walks into her grandma’s house to find out things are not how she left them, her grandma’s Alzheimer’s has progressed to the point where she no longer recognizes her. Phoebe starts to reject her grandma because of the circumstances. Through this, she learns to move past her feelings and accept her grandmother’s fate in their greenhouse which becomes their Neverland escape.

A past reflected: a son remembers as his mother’s memories fade.

Jack Agüeros remembers the lyrics of certain Puerto Rican folk songs and the name of his petite, growling dog: Nikki. He has forgotten that he is the author of four books and and a handful of plays. He wrote sonnets and satiric psalms about immigration, poverty and social inequality. “I don’t remember any of that,” Mr. Agüeros admitted to his daughter. He kept an irregular diary — “the Alzheimer’s chronicle” — but over time lost the ability to read and write.

When my husband was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s two years ago, in 2010, I did not know how we were going to get through the ordeal ahead of us. Feeling alone and isolated, I suggested that we join an Early Alzheimer’s support group in San Francisco, run by the Bay Area Alzheimer’s Association. My husband Jerry agreed to attend.
At our first meeting, there were only two married couples. As the years went by, more people joined our group, to make up the eleven couples that we have now, and we be

Walt and Aline Zerrenner have been married for 52 years, but they no longer live together because of Aline’s struggles with Alzheimer’s. They have found a range of coping mechanisms to deal with her memory loss. In 360 video, join them as they tackle a typical day.

Even though Liz has Alzheimer’s and refuses to take a bath, raising all kinds of havoc with her burned-out husband Robert and with her adult daughter Anna, who tries her best to be helpful, she still manages to give each of them a blessing.

Do You Know Me Now? explores relationships and personhood in people living with Alzheimer’s and other dementias. The film takes a novel look at what it means to be a person living with dementia who is still very much alive and possessing those traits upon which relationships may be built, even late into the disease. The project highlights stories of people with dementia and their loved ones who have found ways to connect — who have discovered joy, beauty and self-expression despite losses.

Hector’s last memory is working in a physics lab when something goes wrong. He wakes up to a strange reality (present). A doctor tells tells him that he has Alzheimer’s and the vivid flashback may be due to the new treatment. After failed attempts to gain information about his wife, Hector meets another patient who is a time traveler from the future. The patient offers to help only if Hector can assist him in fixing a stowed-away time device. Will he take a leap of faith and grasp the chance?