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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Hollie Richardson, Hannah Verdier, Graeme Virtue and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: the first family in the world to be diagnosed with hereditary Alzheimer’s

Carol Jennings (centre) with her husband and family
Carol Jennings (centre), who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in the 1980s, with her husband and family. Photograph: BBC/Expectation/Stuart Jennings

The Jennings vs Alzheimer’s

9pm, BBC Two
If you were going to get dementia, would you want to know? Part terrifying, part hopeful, this documentary follows the children of Carol Jennings who, after her Alzheimer’s diagnosis in the 80s, lobbied for research into the disease being hereditary, which led to confirmation of a mutant gene. Charting what happened since, the film takes us to the question: are we in the Alzheimer’s treatment era? Hollie Richardson

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