Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  (CNN) I tino awe ahau i te kitenga i a Julianne Moore e wikitoria ana i te Oscar mō "Still Alice", he pikitia i whakapehapeha ai ahau, i whai mana hoki ki te mahi hei kaiwhakanao whakahaere. He mahinga whakamataku a Julianne hei kaiwhakaako kura nui 50-tau te pakeke e ngaro ana i tona roro me ia ano ki te mate o Alzheimer i te timatanga. He wā nui tēnei mō Julianne -- he wā nui hoki mō tātou katoa e ngana ana ki te aro atu ki tēnei mate whakaharahara. He rite tonu te whakamataku o te kitenga i te whanaketanga o te Alzheimer i runga i te mata nui ki te mea i roto i te ora tūturu. E mōhio ana ahau, nā te mea he tamaiti ahau na te mate o Alzheimer. Ko te hinengaro o tōku pāpā, a Sargent Shriver, he mea whakatangitangi pai tonu, e whakamiharo ana, e whakaaweawe ana hoki i te tangata. Engari i kite māua ko tōku whānau i te mate o Alzheimer e whakakore ana i taua roro -- āta, āta, ā-katoa. He mea whakamataku ano hoki, nā te mea i taua wā, he mea whakama, he mea whakarongo kau te mate. Kei te mau tonu i a Alzheimer te tohu o te mea kāore i te mōhiotia -- ahakoa i tēnei rā neke atu i te 5 miriona ngā Amerikana kei a ia. Koia tonu. Ia 67 hēkona, ka pā mai tētahi atu o tātou ki te mate o Alzheimer. Ko ngā wāhine e ono tekau tau te pakeke, e rua ngā wā ka nui ake te tūponotanga ki te pāngia e te mate o Alzheimer i te mate pukupuku uma. Me te 10,000 o ngā tamariki e 65 tau ana ia rā, ka 13.5 miriona o tātou e mate ana i te mate o Alzheimer i te tau 2050. A he tokomaha ngā tāngata kāore i te mārama ehara te Alzheimer i te wāhanga tūturu o te koroheketanga. He mate whakamate te Alzheimer. Ko te mea pono, kei waenganui tonu tatou i te mate uruta, engari kei te whakakahore tatou hei iwi. Ko te Oscar mō "Still Alice" kei te whiti i te mārama nui rawa atu ki te mate o Alzheimer, engari kāore e ranea ana te mārama. Kāore e ranea te aro. Kua tae ki te wā kia tino nui. He nui te pānga o te mate o Alzheimer ki ngā whānau o Amerika -- ki tō tātou hauora, ō tātou pūtea, me tō tātou heke mai. He nui ake te pānga ki ngā wāhine. He aha nga wahine? I te tau 2010, i tā mātou whakaputanga o "Te Pūrongo a Shriver: He Motu Wahine e Whawhai ana i te Mate o Alzheimer", i pūrongo mātou ko ngā wāhine neke atu i te haurua o ngā tāngata i tāutuhia ki te mate o Alzheimer, ā, tata ki te rua hautoru o ngā kaitiaki kore utu o te hunga e mate ana. Na, inaianei...
I pāngia te papa o Maria Shriver e te mate o Alzheimer, he mate e piki haere ana i te U.S. Ko te nuinga o ngā wāhine e pāngia ana hei hunga mate me ngā kaitiaki, e ai ki a ia. Kei te whakarewahia te Whakamātautau Whakamātautau Alzheimer ki te whakakapi i te pūtea a te kāwanatanga, e ai ki a ia.