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Alanna Shaikh: Como eu estou me preparando para ter Alzheimer

Filmed Jun 2012 • Posted Jul 2012TEDGlobal 2012
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Quando confrontados com um pai sofrendo por ter Alzheimer, a maioria de nós responde com a negação ("Não vai acontecer comigo") ou extremos esforços para preveni-la. Mas a especialista em saúde e TED Fellow, Alanna Shaikh, vê isso de forma diferente. Ela está dando três passos concretos de preparação para o momento - se acontecer - quando ela própria tiver a doença de Alzheimer.

Global development expert Alanna Shaikh takes on the toughest of health issues—from the ones affecting the globe at large to the ones hurting her own family. Full bio »

Translated into Portuguese, Brazilian by Flávia Pritsch Simões Pires
Reviewed by Viviane Ferraz Matos
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