ST. LOUIS, MO, October 13, 2019) — Kim Campbell, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) advocate and widow of Grammy Hall of Fame and Award-winning music legend Glen Campbell, recounted both the toll that the disease took on her husband and the musical talent that sustained him.
With a combination of video and stories, Ms. Campbell addressed hundreds of academic neurologists and neuroscientists gathered at the Marriott St Louis Grand for the American Neurological Association’s 144th Annual Meeting. In a standing-room-only convening, she followed groundbreaking science presented in the Presidential Symposium on “Dominantly
Inherited and Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease,” offering the caregiver perspective. Ms. Campbell described the insights gained during her family’s extraordinary journey, as her husband of 34nyears defied the limitations of his Alzheimer’s diagnosis by traveling across America on a Farewell Tour, documented in the acclaimed 2014 documentary Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me.
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