Word: holmeses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The first signs are small, puzzling and all too easy to dismiss. For Chicago Journalist Charles Leroux, it was his mother's diminishing ability to manage her checkbook and count change. For Frank Holmes, a retired Boston businessman, it was the wild spending sprees by his once prudent wife...
Aberrations such as these mark the onset of Alzheimer's disease (AD), the insidious and heart-breaking malady of advancing age. The memory lapses, confusion and dementia inevitably get worse. The intelligent and athletic Mrs. Holmes, now 65, forgot how to cook: she set a chicken ablaze by trying...
"Everyone talks about guilt feelings when they have to institutionalize a person they love," says Frank Holmes, the retired Boston businessman whose wife is in a nursing home. "It's not guilt I feel, it's heartbreak." -By Claudia Wallis. Reported by J. Madeleine Nash/Chicago and Sue Wymelenberg/Boston
Some clues: the culprit (or lucky fellow, depending on how one looks at it) was a member of Britain's '70s Labor government and is still an influential M.P. He is married, has a daughter and is described as being like a "bear," with a shock of dark...
The author tips his hat to Sir Arthur early on. The name of his medieval detective, William of Baskerville, is an echo of the Sherlock Holmes story The Hound of the Baskervilles. In the 14th century context, William is a Franciscan friar, famed for his formidable powers of deduction. His...