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What to Remember When You Are Forgetting: How to Live and Thrive with Memory Loss, Alzheimer’s, and Other Dementias by Zaldy Tan

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Media darling and director of Memory and Healthy Aging at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Dr. Zaldy Tan's What to Remember When You Are Forgetting shares the definitive guide to thriving with dementia for the recently diagnosed and their caregivers.

What if a dementia diagnosis could be an invitation to live? What if the first phase of the disease could be a catalyst to embrace a long-forgotten dream? Or to finally resolve a festering family conflict? Or to make new friends and create new, cherished memories?

Renowned memory and Alzheimer's disease specialist, researcher, educator, and author Dr. Zaldy Tan, the Harvard-trained director of the Cedars-Sinai Memory and Healthy Aging Program, shares the definitive guide to thriving with dementia. On these pages, you'll meet patients like Angela, who had worked as a singer in a Hollywood lounge before her children were born and dreamed of stardom. Instead, Angela put her dreams aside to raise her family. But after her diagnosis of early-onset dementia, instead of shutting down or continuing to prioritize others over herself, Angela embraced her career anew and traveled the country performing with a local singing group. You'll also meet Marcel, who considered Alzheimer's as a wake-up call to recalibrate his life priorities, and Mary-Louise, who didn't have family nearby to rely on but found an advocate in a new friend she met in a writing group. With an incredibly thorough and deeply comforting approach, Dr. Tan tackles everything from how to have a conversation with a person experiencing early memory loss, to how to prepare for an initial assessment for Alzheimer's, and what accommodations and interventions are needed for every stage and type of dementia. He delves into the surprisingly hopeful research on new treatment and caregiving resources everyone should know, and reveals how other families and remarkable individuals he's treated over the years have handled both difficult challenges and incredible triumphs after diagnosis.

Media darling and director of Memory and Healthy Aging at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Dr. Zaldy Tan's What to Remember When You Are Forgetting shares the definitive guide to thriving with dementia for the recently diagnosed and their caregivers.

What if a dementia diagnosis could be an invitation to live? What if the first phase of the disease could be a catalyst to embrace a long-forgotten dream? Or to finally resolve a festering family conflict? Or to make new friends and create new, cherished memories?

Renowned memory and Alzheimer's disease specialist, researcher, educator, and author Dr. Zaldy Tan, the Harvard-trained director of the Cedars-Sinai Memory and Healthy Aging Program, shares the definitive guide to thriving with dementia. On these pages, you'll meet patients like Angela, who had worked as a singer in a Hollywood lounge before her children were born and dreamed of stardom. Instead, Angela put her dreams aside to raise her family. But after her diagnosis of early-onset dementia, instead of shutting down or continuing to prioritize others over herself, Angela embraced her career anew and traveled the country performing with a local singing group. You'll also meet Marcel, who considered Alzheimer's as a wake-up call to recalibrate his life priorities, and Mary-Louise, who didn't have family nearby to rely on but found an advocate in a new friend she met in a writing group. With an incredibly thorough and deeply comforting approach, Dr. Tan tackles everything from how to have a conversation with a person experiencing early memory loss, to how to prepare for an initial assessment for Alzheimer's, and what accommodations and interventions are needed for every stage and type of dementia. He delves into the surprisingly hopeful research on new treatment and caregiving resources everyone should know, and reveals how other families and remarkable individuals he's treated over the years have handled both difficult challenges and incredible triumphs after diagnosis.

  • Publisher: Atria Books

    Title: What to Remember When You Are Forgetting: How to Live and Thrive with Memory Loss, Alzheimer's, and Other Dementias

    Author: Zaldy Tan

    On Sale Date: September 15, 2026

    ISBN 13: 9781668093771

    ISBN 10: 1668093774

    Format: Hardcover

    Retail Price: $30.00

    BISAC: HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / Alzheimer's & Dementia; SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Memory Improvement; MEDICAL / Caregiving

    Page Count: 336

  • Dr. Zaldy Tan is a Harvard-trained geriatrician who directs the Memory and Healthy Aging Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and holds the Carmen & Louis Warschaw Endowed Chair in Neurology at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine. Before Cedars-Sinai, he built and led Harvard Medical School's Memory Disorders Clinic, and his research and commentary on memory loss and dementia care have appeared in The New York Times, CNN, NPR, and The Wall Street Journal. What to Remember When You Are Forgetting draws on decades spent at the bedside with patients and families navigating a dementia diagnosis, and it isn't his first time putting that expertise on the page — he previously co-wrote Age-Proof Your Mind for readers looking to protect their cognitive health before a diagnosis ever arrives.

  • Critics are calling it thorough, practical, and empowering:

    • "This thorough, practical examination of how to deal with memory loss...is recommended for public libraries." — Library Journal

    • "Tan delivers a practical and empowering road map for people with dementia..." — Publishers Weekly

    • "This is the kind of book I wish every patient and caregiver had..." — Katherine L. Possin, PhD

    • "In a well-written, well-organized, and sympathetic voice..." — Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH

This book is for you if

  • You or someone you love has just received a dementia or Alzheimer's diagnosis and don't know where to start.

  • You're caring for a parent or spouse and need concrete scripts for hard conversations, not just sympathy.

  • You want a doctor's expertise without the clinical coldness — written by someone who's sat across the table from thousands of families.

  • You've heard stories like Angela's and Marcel's and want to believe a diagnosis can still leave room for purpose.

  • You're preparing for a memory assessment and want to know what to expect before you're in the waiting room.

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