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In honor of November being National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month. Life (Part 2) offers a sneak preview of the episode, "The New Face of Alzheimer's," an open, frank, and fearless look at Alzheimer's Disease. 

Mary Ann Becklenberg, is a courageous, articulate 64-year-old woman who is speaking out for herself and others in the early stages of Alzheimer's. A former hospice worker who is now on the Early Stage Advisory Committee for the Alzheimer's Association, Becklenberg sees her diagnosis as a challenge to inform others about a disease that now afflicts more than five million Americans. Watch the entire episode here (coming 11/24/09).

 

 

 

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