Memory lessons

Jerry Winakur has been a medical doctor for over thirty years, with a specialty in gerontology. But all his years of service helping patients and their families adjust to the challenges of aging did not prepare him for becoming father to his own father, who had become as needy as any child. Part memoir, part manifesto, Memory Lessons is a narrative exploration on what it’s like to be medical counselor to countless patients, and it is also Dr. Winakur’s personal story, focusing on his father’s decline due to old age and Alzheimer’s. In both of his roles—highly skilled professional and loving…