Terry Pratchett: Living with Alzheimer's

Determined to prevent it if he possibly can, Terry Pratchett took a personal journey through the science and the reality of what it's like to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's. This two part documentary followed Terry's race to find a cure as he endeavoured to find ways of slowing, mitigating or even reversing its course.

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Status	Ended
Original Name	Terry Pratchett: Living with Alzheimer's
First Air Date	February 4, 2009
Last Air Date	February 11, 2009
Seasons	1
Episodes	2
Episode Runtime	0min
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Original Language	English
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Networks	BBC Two

S01E02

Part 2

Bestselling author Terry Pratchett has early onset Alzheimer's disease. And he wants Alzheimer's to be sorry that it ever caught him. In the second of this two-part series, Terry confronts his future living with the disease. He travels to America to witness first-hand how they are coping with the 'tsunami of Alzheimer's', and meets the unlikely doctor who stumbled across a controversial new treatment that he claims produces remarkable results in minutes.

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