Unraveling the Mysteries of Dementia: Robert Kolker’s Deep Dive into Love, Loss, and the Vanishing Family

Unraveling the Mysteries of Dementia: Robert Kolker's Deep Dive into Love, Loss, and the Vanishing Family

Interview by Leslie Lindsay

cover of The Vanishing Family: Love, Fate, and the Quest to End Dementia - a fuzzy group picture in the backgroundIt’s the late 1960s in small town Pleasant Hills, Pennsylvania, a swath of farmland on the eastern outskirts of Pittsburgh, when Ollie and Jean and their brood of eight — soon to be nine — children move into a five-bedroom Colonial.

Ollie is an engineer and Jean has a degree from St. Mary’s, the sister school of Notre Dame, but she’s plenty busy raising children, attending bridge club, hosting parties, and keeping everything running smoothly. If it sounds too good to be true, you’d be right.

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