"You know I still wear a wedding ring, but my existence now is really that of a single man with a family. Bill Carmen's words convey the pain and difficulties of living with a sufferer who is now absent in all but body.
Alzheimer’s disease literally eats away at the brain destroying any function it encounters. Speech, memory and movement are the most common casualties of an affliction that affects 100,000 new sufferers each year in Britain. Ten years ago, there was no cure, no prevention and no certain diagnosis but Assault On The Mind follows a ground-breaking study that is unearthing important new signposts to a cure. The film follows three key researchers at the helm of the project as they treat not only the disease and the individual, but also the emotional casualties – the families of the sufferers.
