Beside the Mountain Finding Strength and Courage Through My Father's Early Onset Alzheimer's Disease by Stefania Silvestri

It all started with the numbers. Giovanni (John) Silvestri was just forty-eight years old when he and his wife made their first appointment with a neurologist. The MRI results showed that John had the brain of an eighty-five-year-old man. My young father received a diagnosis of dementia.