The book, Aging Or Alzheimer’s? serves as the most up-to-date account of the science surrounding all things aging. One aim is to use scholarship and reason to counterbalance the often misleading exclamation points, breathless question marks, and wishful hype so commonly inserted into popular discourse on this subject.

I have never had any previous interest in blogs. Throughout the book I chose to inserted my educated but personal opinions in easily identifiable outlined blocks of text. My intent was to clearly distinguish between peer-reviewed and published conclusions by academics and my personal inferences and judgements (as informed by a 55-year career in basic science and medicine).  Not totally surprising, those blocks were my favorite parts to write and to reread while editing. Closing out my career and finishing the book has not tempered my desire to teach, or to be heard. This set of web pages reverses the order imposed by medical writing. Here I can present my (informed) attitudes and beliefs, with the science now primarily providing the backup, and this website’s audience the feedback.

Realistically, with over 500 scientific papers published per month with Alzheimer’s disease in the title, no book stays definitive for long. Nor can any one person know it all. With this blog I can remain available and accountable to the scientific community and my readers, an impetus to continue to keep up with these topics.

I offer my perspectives as someone who has both been there with loved ones, and who is going there, potentially on my own.