Alzheimers Project

From the NIA Spotlight on Aging Research:

Critics and viewers agree: The Alzheimer’s Project is television worth watching. The documentary series, co-presented by HBO Documentary Films and the NIA in association with the Alzheimer’s Association, Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund, and the Geoffrey Beene Gives Back Alzheimer’s Initiative, has reached millions of viewers. It won a 2009 Television Critics’ Award for Outstanding Achievement in News and Information and garnered two 2009 Emmy awards for nonfiction programming.

“Grandpa, Do You Know Who I Am?” producer and host Maria Shriver’s film about children coping with relatives who have Alzheimer’s, won an Emmy award for Outstanding Children’s Nonfiction Program. “The Memory Loss Tapes,” a film that features a personal look at seven individuals living with Alzheimer’s, won the Emmy’s Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking Award. Launched in May 2009, the series includes four core films. In addition, there are 15 additional short supplemental films available at www.nia.nih.gov/Alzheimers/HBO/ or http://www.hbo.com/alzheimers/the-supplementary-series.html.

HBO produced another 18 short films for the AlzForum that are intended for researchers and scientific community, which can be found at http://www.alzforum.org/res/com/videogallery/.

For more information about The Alzheimer’s Project and to view the films, visit www.nia.nih.gov/Alzheimers/HBO or www.hbo.com/alzheimers.