HBO launches four-part series on Alzheimer's May 10

From the Alzheimer's Association. You can watch the trailer for "The Alzheimer's Project" on the HBO Web site.

This May, “The Alzheimer’s Project,” HBO's multi-platform series will examine groundbreaking Alzheimer discoveries made by the country’s leading scientists and the effects this debilitating and fatal disease has on those with Alzheimer’s and their families.

The four-part series will cover three days, May 10-12. “The Memory Loss Tapes,” May 10 9 p.m. EST, takes an intimate look at seven individuals living with Alzheimer’s, seeking to introduce a new understanding by sharing the devastating experience of memory loss from the point of view of the person with the disease.

“Grandpa, Do You Know Who I Am? With Maria Shriver” and “Momentum in Science, Part 1,” will be Monday, May 11 at 7:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. EST. “Grandpa, Do You Know Who I Am? With Maria Shriver” is geared toward children and young teens coping with a grandparent’s illness, and presents vignettes that can help a child understand and deal with a relative’s gradual decline into Alzheimer’s. “Momentum in Science” is a two-part, state-of-science odyssey that takes viewers inside the laboratories and clinics of 25 leading physicians, revealing some of the most cutting-edge Alzheimer research advances.

“Caregivers” and “Momentum in Science, Part 2” will be May 12 at 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. EST. “Caregivers, ” is a collection of five family portraits that illustrate caring for the different stages of Alzheimer’s disease. The evening concludes with “Momentum in Science, Part 2.”

"The Alzheimer’s Project” is a presentation of HBO Documentary Films and the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health in association with the Alzheimer’s Association, The Fidelity® Charitable Gift Fund and Geoffrey Beene Gives Back® Alzheimer’s Initiative.