She also conveys to her children that each of them have a 50 percent risk of having inherited a dominant gene for the disease and can be tested to determine if they are also carriers. Alice is diagnosed with an inherited, rare case of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.Īlice tells her husband and children of her condition. Eventually, the symptoms of forgetting words, names, appointments and locations lead her to seek medical treatment from a neurologist. At first she brushes the symptoms off as being absent-minded. She seems to have everything she is brilliant, well-educated, financially successful, and beloved by her family and colleagues.Īs the story progresses, Alice begins experiencing growing symptoms of Alzheimer’s. The story starts off with Alice celebrating her 50 th birthday with her successful scientist husband (Alec Baldwin) and three grown children. Julianne Moore plays the role of Alice who is an acclaimed linguistics professor at Columbia University. Still Alice is an enlightening movie which explores the harsh reality of a person from both the physical and emotional effects of Alzheimer’s disease.

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Still alice by lisa genova