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. Newsday will run these stories each Sunday through Nov 1 and will be following up the series the following week with a look toward the future and what efforts are being made to address the "tsunami" of Alzheimer's that is about to hit in the coming decades.

Please follow the link below to read about the Newsday Series:

http://www.newsday.com/news/health/alzheimers/alzheimer-s-ushers-in-a-quiet-end-to-70-years-of-romance-1.1507419