TV tonight: the first family in the world to be diagnosed with hereditary Alzheimer’s ( www.theguardian.com )

A documentary charts a profound moment in the understanding of Alzheimer’s. Plus: more twists in the case of slippery tycoon Robert Durst. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, BBC Two

If you were going to get dementia, would you want to know? Part terrifying, part hopeful, this documentary follows the children of Carol Jennings who, after her Alzheimer’s diagnosis in the 80s, lobbied for research into the disease being hereditary, which led to confirmation of a mutant gene. Charting what happened since, the film takes us to the question: are we in the Alzheimer’s treatment era? Hollie Richardson

Apytele , 1 month ago

At the very least if people know they can get their affairs sorted ahead of time. We had to write a paper in school on the importance of advance directives and the case study I used was a guy that finally just had to be arrested and dragged to the ER in handcuffs (ppl w dementia can get... interesting) when if he'd had an advance directive and designated a surrogate decision maker, that trusted person could have just signed off on him gently being led to an appropriate care facility. Instead all of his loved ones were stuck watching his slow and very public decline without any way to save him from himself.

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