"Millions of people around the world are living with the harsh reality of Alzheimer's disease, which also significantly impacts family members. Nobody is immune, as A-list actor Chris Hemsworth discovered when his own father was recently diagnosed. The revelation inspired Hemsworth to embark on a trip down memory lane with his father, which took them to Australia's Northern Territory. The experience was captured on film for A Road Trip To Remember, a new documentary film from National Geographic."
"Director Tom Barbor-Might had worked with Hemsworth on the latter's documentary series, also for National Geographic. Each episode of Limitless follows Hemsworth on a unique challenge to push himself to the limits, augmented with interviews with scientific experts on such practices as fasting, extreme temperatures, brain-boosting, and regulating one's stress response. Barbor-Might directed the season 1 finale, "Acceptance," which was very different in tone, dealing with the inevitability of death and the need to confront one's own mortality."
Chris Hemsworth's father received an Alzheimer's diagnosis, prompting Hemsworth to take his father on a memory-focused trip through Australia's Northern Territory that was filmed as A Road Trip To Remember for National Geographic. Director Tom Barbor-Might, who previously worked with Hemsworth on the Limitless series, pursued a more intimate and emotional tone for the project. Hemsworth worked with Suraj Samtani, a clinical psychologist specializing in dementia at the New South Wales Center for Healthy Brain Aging, to guide the journey. Recent research cited suggests regular social interaction can halve dementia risk and that strong social connections and revisiting past locations can slow cognitive decline.
Read at Ars Technica
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