"All the drawers which we filled in years of our lives suddenly start to empty and little by little in there nothing remains. It's like a slow and heavy removals without a firm authorized me to help you move things more difficult and above all gradually. Especially without professionals that allow you to keep with you what you want to keep. " So Manuela Donghi, journalist and presenter of radio and television, describes Alzheimer's disease in the book "See for yourself" (Giuliano Ladolfi Publisher, 158 pages, 12 €), presented in Milan.

A life always true to itself

A touching story, emotional, whose author - in fiction - is a sixteen year old who attends assiduously a nursing home for the elderly although not there any relative. The little girl befriends Maria, suffering from Alzheimer's, and becomes attached to other guests of the center, as well as a valet. That the nursing home becomes a "parallel" reality, suspended, alongside the life of the protagonist, made up of friends, family, first loves, school, text messages, doubts and desires. In diary form (updated constantly), the book describes the elderly - Maria, beloved, Ada Franco, Agnes - and life always true to itself of that place closed. "In the case of a hospice, the slowness is a firm and immovable reality. No rewind and without alternatives - writes Donghi -. A slow flow of images that are repeated. The alarm sounds and what happens is the replica of the day before, and the one before that".