Alzheimer’s on Long Island: About this project
For nearly two years, reporter Denise M. Bonilla and photographer J. Conrad Williams Jr. followed six families in order to chronicle the agony of Alzheimer’s disease and to provide an inside look at the role of the caregiver.
The families all have different circumstances and loved ones at different stages of the disease.
On many occasions, Bonilla and Williams arrived at the families’ homes early in the morning, often leaving late at night, as they observed the hour-to-hour, day-to-day struggles of caring for someone with a disease so debilitating it robs its victims of any knowledge of a life once happily lived.
The stories Bonilla wrote and Williams photographed are as much love stories as they are stories of hardship and struggle.
The online project
Lead Editor: Jamshid Mousavinezhad
Lead Developer: David Holland
Creative Manager: Michael Aguggia
Lead Designer: Matthew Cassella
Designers: Ray Shahriar, Matthew Hogeboom
Copy Editors: Martha Guevara, Rosemary Olander, Liisa May
Interactive producers: Adam Abramson, Amy Larson
Photo Editor: Jeff Schamberry
Multimedia Editor: Arnold Miller
Video editors and researcher: Brendan Awerbuch, Daryl Thomen, Susan Elder
Newsday.com Editor: Emilio Guerra
Associate Managing Editor: Jonathan McCarthy
Data input: Kathy Diamond, Dorothy Levin, David Cassidy, Laura Mann, Iris Quigley, Judy Weinberg, Ann Smukler, Mary Beth Foley
Graphics and Science: Rod Eyer, Delthia Ricks
Interns: Bobby Bonett, Anastasia Economides
Email us at alzheimers@newsday.com
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