Or maybe creative people have a greater sense about what's in the air.
Justice O'Connor's husband forms romance with fellow Alzheimer's patient.
Last week I watched Away From Her, a movie starring Julie Christie as Fiona who, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, decides she would be better off in a retirement home than with her husband of fifty years whom she dearly loves, despite some troubled spots that they never discuss.
New patients at the retirement home are not allowed visitors for thirty days so they can adjust more quickly. When the husband finally is allowed to visit his wife he finds Fiona has fallen in love with a fellow patient.
The movie is a brilliant adaption by Sarah Polley of an Alice Munro short story, "The Bear Came Over the Mountain."
Posted by Jill Fallon at November 13, 2007 3:09 PM | Permalink