Shriver digests the current trends in thinking about Alzheimer's, examines cutting-edge medical research, looks at societal impacts, and includes a groundbreaking and comprehensive national poll. The text features original photography and personal essays by men and women who share their personal struggles with the disease. ...The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Takes on Alzheimer's will be the first comprehensive multi-disciplinary look at these questions at this transformational moment. The Report will digest the current trends in thinking about Alzheimer's, examine cutting-edge medical research, look at societal impacts, and include a groundbreaking and comprehensive national poll. It will feature original photography and personal essays by men and women - some from the public arena with names you know, some from everyday America - sharing their personal struggles with the disease as patients, caregivers and family members.
Shriver, Maria Maria Shriver is a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning journalist and the NYT bestselling author of "Ten Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Went Into the Real World" and the children's books "What's Wrong With Timmy?", "What's Happening to Grandpa?", and "What's Heaven? "In 1983 she became a national reporter at CBS News; she later moved to NBC, where she anchored a variety of news programs and specials as well as covering presidential races and other stories. She lives with her husband, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and their four children in Los Angeles.The Alzheimer s Association is the