This is a good article about the symptoms of normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH). Often, NPH is misdiagnosed as progressive supranuclear palsy or Lewy body dementia!
In this case, the sufferer’s cognitive symptoms improved immediately after brain suergery.
Here’s a link to the full article:
Her mother seemed to have classic dementia. Or did she?
By Roni Caryn Rabin
Washington Post
March 2, 2015
Thanks to local support group member Don for forwarding this article to me.
I’m not sure I like the title of this opinion piece in last Friday’s New York Times but much of the daughter’s reaction to her father’s death (with PSP) resonates with1 me. The daughter is Ann Patchett, an American novelist.
You can find the article here:
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/finding-joy-in-my-fathers-death/
Opinionator – A Gathering of Opinion From Around the Web
The End – series about end-of-life issues
Finding Joy in My Father’s Death
New York Times
By Ann Patchett
February 27, 2015 4:12 pm
Robin
