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In "The Day After Yesterday: Resilience in the Face of Dementia" (MIT Press), photographer Joe Wallace has chronicled the stories of families who have lived with Alzheimer's. Among them: Carrie Richardson, now 44, whose family carries the PSEN1 gene, making them genetically predisposed to developing early-onset Alzheimer's.

Read the excerpt below, and don't miss Dr. Jon LaPook's interview with Carrie Richardson and her daughter Hannah, who are participating in a clinical trial at Washington University in St. Louis studying Alzheimer's, on "CBS Sunday Morning" November 9!

"The Day After Yesterday" by Joe Wallace $23 at Amazon

Carrie + Bryan

Excerpt from an advocacy speech given in 2015

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