GREG O'BRIEN & STEVE ECCLESINE - "HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT GREG?" ALZHEIMER'S DOCUMENTARY
Love Conquers Alz
English - April 05, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 43.8 MBHealth & Fitness alzheimer's caregivers dementia alzheimer's support caregiver support talkshow interviews Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Greg O’Brien was 59 years old when diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, unmasked by doctors after suffering a serious head injury. The award-winning journalist, husband, and father of three, lost his mother, father, paternal grandfather, and paternal uncle to Alzheimer’s.
Greg learned from his beloved mother, Virginia, what it means to truly live with Alzheimer’s, and it was her inspiration that prompted him to write and speak openly about his own diagnosis. Ever since, Greg has been chronicling his thoughts, addressing medical conferences and Alzheimer’s support groups around the world. In 2014, Greg, now 72, published a memoir called On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer’s, which won the 2015 International Book Award for Health.
The memoir is the first book written by an investigative reporter embedded inside the mind of Alzheimer’s, chronicling the progression of his own disease. Lisa Genova, author of the best-selling Alzheimer’s novel, Still Alice, whose screen version won an Academy Award, wrote the foreword. “If you’re trying to understand what it feels like to live with Alzheimer’s…then you need to read this book,”
Now, a new documentary feature film, Have You Heard About Greg? A Journey Through Alzheimer’s with Faith, Hope and Humor, about Greg’s life opens nationwide May 6, 2022. (Written and coproduced by Greg O’Brien. Directed and coproduced by his childhood friend, Steve Ecclesine.)
Powerfully told, HYHAG puts a human face on the most terrifying disease of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.
Don and I spoke with Greg and Steve about the inspiration behind the documentary and why its message is so very important.
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xoxo Susie
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