{"id":11683,"date":"2024-08-22T09:02:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T09:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=11683"},"modified":"2024-08-22T09:25:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T09:25:01","slug":"geri-taylor-a-voice-for-alzheimers-is-dead-at-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=11683","title":{"rendered":"Geri Taylor, a Voice for Alzheimer\u2019s, Is Dead at 81"},"content":{"rendered":"
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She turned her diagnosis into a command to live life passionately, leading to a 12-page New York Times profile and a new career as a public speaker.<\/p>\n

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Geri Taylor, whose openhearted disclosures about the ravages of Alzheimer\u2019s were so striking that they made her a public spokeswoman for people with the disease, died on Aug. 4 in Danbury, Conn. She was 81.<\/p>\n

The cause was complications of Alzheimer\u2019s, her husband, Jim Taylor, said.<\/p>\n

Ms. Taylor, a former nurse, brought her profession\u2019s competence, knowledge and frankness to her second career as an activist. She and Mr. Taylor became frequent interviewees in news articles about Alzheimer\u2019s, activists in Washington and lecturers for audiences of patients and researchers. They spoke jointly to more than 15,000 people, Mr. Taylor said.<\/p>\n

All of that followed from a 21,000-word profile<\/a> of the Taylors published in The New York Times in 2016 \u2014 the product of 20 months of work by the reporter N.R. Kleinfield, a specialist in writing stories about people of little fame but great significance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The \u201cfamiliar face of Alzheimer\u2019s,\u201d Mr. Kleinfield wrote, was \u201cthe withered person with the scrambled mind marooned in a nursing home.\u201d But there was also, he added, something else: \u201cthe beginning, the waiting period, which Geri Taylor has been navigating with prudence, grace and hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ms. Taylor with her husband, Jim Taylor, in a cab in Las Vegas in 2014. The Taylors helped found an organization called Voices of Alzheimer\u2019s, which pushes for accessible and improved medical care. <\/span>Michael Kirby Smith for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Ms. Taylor first learned she was developing Alzheimer\u2019s in 2012, when she was 69, after she had the uncanny experience of looking in the mirror and not recognizing her own face.<\/p>\n

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She turned her diagnosis into a command to live life passionately, leading to a 12-page New York Times profile and a new career as a public speaker.Geri Taylor, whose openhearted disclosures about the ravages of Alzheimer\u2019s were so striking that they made her a public spokeswoman for people with the disease, died on Aug. 4 in Danbury, Conn. She was 81.The cause was complications of Alzheimer\u2019s, her husband, Jim Taylor, said.Ms. Taylor, a former nurse, brought her profession\u2019s competence, knowledge and frankness to her second career as an activist. She and Mr. Taylor became frequent interviewees in news articles about Alzheimer\u2019s, activists in Washington and lecturers for audiences of patients and researchers. They spoke jointly to more than 15,000 people, Mr. Taylor said.All of that followed from a 21,000-word profile of the Taylors published in The New York Times in 2016 \u2014 the product of 20 months of work by the reporter N.R. Kleinfield, a specialist in writing stories about people of little fame but great significance.The \u201cfamiliar face of Alzheimer\u2019s,\u201d Mr. Kleinfield wrote, was \u201cthe withered person with the scrambled mind marooned in a nursing home.\u201d But there was also, he added, something else: \u201cthe beginning, the waiting period, which Geri Taylor has been navigating with prudence, grace and hope.\u201dMs. Taylor with her husband, Jim Taylor, in a cab in Las Vegas in 2014. The Taylors helped found an organization called Voices of Alzheimer\u2019s, which pushes for accessible and improved medical care. Michael Kirby Smith for The New York TimesMs. Taylor first learned she was developing Alzheimer\u2019s in 2012, when she was 69, after she had the uncanny experience of looking in the mirror and not recognizing her own face.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11685,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11686,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11683\/revisions\/11686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}