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Independent Lens | For Lee Gorewitz, Living With Alzheimer's is an Odyssey | PBS

Duration: 01:46
Program: Independent Lens #1316
Broadcast Date: Mar. 29, 2012

Lee Gorewitz lives in a care facility for Alzheimer's patients, but she is not simply waiting to die. She is full of curiosity and frustration, struggling to remember herself and make sense of a world that is falling away from her.

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