Living With Huntington Disease
This item is included in the following series/curriculum: Lives Interrupted
- Grade Level: General-Adult
- Subjects: Psychology
- Produced By: Distribution Access
- Year: 2001
- Country: Canada
- Language: English
- Running Time: 23m
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The Pace Family carry a deadly legacy, the gene for Huntington's disease, a condition which causes the sufferer to lose memory, mobility, the ability to speak clearly and to make rational decisions. Mother Iggie started to show symptoms in 1992 and her three children have watched the heart-breaking progress of the disease, while also confronting the uncertainty of whether they carry the gene themselves. When daughter Anne took the test, she had to decide how she would tell her siblings the outcome. In the meantime, care for their mother has become increasingly difficult and they contemplate whether to place her in a nursing home.