記憶力退化
正常老化：
失智症狀：
東西擺放錯亂
正常老化：
失智症狀：
無法勝任原本熟悉的事務
正常老化：
失智症狀：
計畫事情或解決問題有困難
正常老化：
失智症狀：
對時間地點感到混淆
正常老化：
失智症狀：
情緒、個性與行為改變
正常老化：
失智症狀：
「記憶力隨年齡增長而退化是必然的，晚年無法改善大腦健康」
「輕度認知障礙（Mild Cognitive Impairment, MCI）＝ 早期阿茲海默病」
「阿茲海默病＝失智症」
「父母有阿茲海默病，我也一定會得」
「阿茲海默病病人沒有任何治療選擇」
第一步
病史
認知評估
血液檢測與檢查
腦部影像檢查
00:00-00:02
[White background with red Lilly logo appears.]
00:02-00:08
[Sue and Jim are sitting on a khaki suede couch in their living room. They are in comfortable clothing and in relaxed seating positions: Sue has her hands crossed on top of her lap while Jim, sitting to Sue’s left, is seated with his legs crossed.]
Caption: Sue, Jim’s Wife; Jim
Sue: My son and I both noticed it, that Jim's speech just didn't seem normal.
00:08-00:24
[A photo montage of Jim begins playing; the first photo is of Sue and Jim smiling in a wood-paneled room; the second photo is of Jim sitting on their khaki suede couch with a dog asleep in his lap; the third photo is of Jim sitting in a beach chair, looking at the ocean with their dog at his side. After the photo montage, the scene cuts back to Sue and Jim on their couch.]
Sue: Jim was always a guy who just talked to anybody and everybody. He was having trouble pronouncing words, finding the right word. I even remember him saying, “I can't even talk!” You know, he would get frustrated. And that's when we needed to get some doctor's help and see what was going on.
00:25-00:31
[Scene remains on Sue and Jim sitting on their couch.]
Sue: Never did I ever suspect that it was Alzheimer’s disease. We had gone through the evaluations and it just didn't look good.
00:32-00:36
[Camera cuts to Sue, whose voice trembles and eyes begin to well as she recalls the moment she realized Jim may have dementia.]
Sue: I'm sorry. Getting emotional right now, but...
00:36-00:53
[Scene remains on Sue and Jim sitting on their couch. Sue is visibly becoming emotional recalling her experience as a caregiver while Jim comforts her]
Sue: I was having such a rough day at work because I knew deep down that he had dementia at a really young age, and I didn't know what I was going to do. And it was really rough. I'm sorry.
00:56-01:12
[Camera cuts back to Sue, who is now composed. Alternating cuts between Sue and Jim continue.]
Sue: I had a feeling of dread, you know, doom. And we had all these plans. I thought, “We can't do anything,” you know? We won't be able to travel. I just remember crying nonstop, all the time. We were out at the pool, and Jim says to me, “I don't think we're doing enough.”
01:12-01:24
[Scene remains on Sue and Jim, as a photo of Sue and Jim at the Alzheimer’s Association’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s® event appears, then cuts back to Sue and Jim on the couch.]
Sue: The next time we met with the doctor, we just really talked to them to say, “What can we do? We feel like, you know, it's like a hopeless situation. We're just letting him fade.” And that's when we first found out about maybe we can get into a clinical trial.
01:24-01:32
[A photo of Sue and Jim smiling on a park bench outside appears, then the scene cuts back to Sue and Jim sitting on their couch.]
Sue: The feeling I had when he qualified was a feeling of relief, like, “Oh my God, there's some hope. Maybe this will help him.”
01:34-01:44
[Footage of Jim grilling hamburgers outside begins to play, then cuts to footage of Sue and Jim enjoying the hamburgers at their dining table. The scene returns to Sue on their couch, just before cutting to footage of Jim walking their dog outside in their neighborhood.]
Sue: Jim... He's never been really down and depressed about it. He's still just lives his life. Jim likes to walk the dog, so he takes him for a walk. How about household chores?
01:44-01:49
[Scene cuts back to Sue and Jim on the couch. Jim looks at her with playful smile just before they share a laugh together.]
Jim: I leave that to you. No, I help. I try to help a little bit.
01:49-01:55
[Footage appears of Jim at a bowling alley, about to toss a ball as Sue looks on from the background. We see the ball striking the pins, just before the scene cuts back to Sue and Jim laughing on the couch.]
Sue: We bowl in three different bowling leagues.
Jim: We bowl?
Sue: Yes. We bowl.
01:56-02:19
[Footage appears of Jim back at a bowling alley, about to hit the final strike of a perfect game. Once he strikes the pins, Jim looks back at the camera and shrugs his arms out in a nonchalant manner, just before the scene returns to Sue and Jim on the couch.]
Sue: Recently he bowled another perfect game. It got down to the very last ball and, sure enough, he hit the perfect game. And I was yelling and screaming and everybody was clapping. And he was just like nonchalant, “Oh well!” you know?
Jim: It's not a big deal. Not a big deal.
Sue: Were you nervous on that last ball?
Jim: I don't think so. I don’t know.
Sue: You didn’t seem to be.
02:19-02:40
[A montage begins to play: the first photo is of Sue and Jim smiling together at the beach with a lighthouse and coastline in the background; the second photo is of Sue and Jim sitting in front of a flowerbed overlooking a marina; the third photo is of Jim standing outside with a grand valley in the background; the fourth is a video clip of Jim standing beside a Hawaiian harbor; the fifth photo is of Sue and Jim sitting together in front of the sign for Waimea Canyon Lookout. The scene cuts back to Sue and Jim sitting on their couch, before closing on a clip of them standing outside their home together, laughing.]
Sue: It's just critical to get the diagnosis as soon as possible. I'm just grateful that he's here. I'm grateful that we're able to do a little bit of traveling. And one big thing on our bucket list was Hawaii. We need to live our life and, you know, I just feel this urgency. Just more time with him. And we haven't had enough time yet.
Jim: Yeah.
02:40-02:43
[White background with red Lilly logo fades into frame to conclude the video.]