The Alzheimer's Project: Season 1

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HBO | Season Premiere Date: May 10, 2009

Summary: The four-part documentary looks at the people affected by Alzheimer's and the search for a cure.

Genre(s): Health & Lifestyle, Documentary, Science

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E5. Caregivers
Air Date: March 27, 2014
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S1:E4. The Alzheimer's Project: Momentum In Science, Pt. 2
Air Date: May 8, 2009
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S1:E3. The Alzheimer's Project: Momentum In Science, Pt. 1
Air Date: May 8, 2009

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Mandi Bierly

The four-part docuseries begins with ''The Memory Loss Tapes,'' a moving look at the disease's progression through seven patients at various stages. It's not a question of if you'll cry, it's how soon. Read full review

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Verne Gay

What's here is pitch-perfect - the fear, loss, emotional devastation and, peculiar to this disease, silence. Read full review

Mary McNamara

The Alzheimer’s Project is an ambitious, disturbing, emotionally fraught and carefully optimistic four-part documentary exploring virtually every angle of Alzheimer's disease that can be explored on television Read full review

Glenn Garvin

The Alzheimer's Project, a four-part series that began with two episodes focused on harrowing descriptions of the disease, concludes on a hopeful note with two more outlining research advances. Read full review

Nancy DeWolf Smith

In many respects, HBO's The Alzheimer's Project is nearly identical to the Emmy-winning PBS Alzheimer's presentation, "The Forgetting," which was first broadcast in 2004 and updated last year. Read full review

Brian Lowry

It's perhaps inevitable that this project will range from sobering and moving to, at times, feeling a bit too much like homework. Read full review

Randee Dawn

We like noble efforts. But we tend to like them better on television when they're accompanied by a sense of pacing and entertainment value. (If things were otherwise, PBS would rule the universe.) In this case, a few more spoonfuls of sugar might have helped this medicine go down. Read full review

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ErnieK

May 12, 2009

An important series, but poorly assembled, I fear the opening hour caused many viewers to turn it off due to the hopelessness depicted. The producers needed to sprinkle bits of the hope from researchers throughout the grim introduction of the patients.

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: May 10, 2009
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  S1:E5. Caregivers
  Air Date: March 27, 2014
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  S1:E4. The Alzheimer's Project: Momentum In Science, Pt. 2
  Air Date: May 8, 2009
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  S1:E3. The Alzheimer's Project: Momentum In Science, Pt. 1
  Air Date: May 8, 2009
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  S1:E2. Grandpa, Do You Know Who I Am?
  Air Date: unknown
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  S1:E1. The Alzheimer's Project: The Memory Loss Tapes
  Air Date: May 8, 2009