Cinematic Empathy: The Art of Socially Conscious Film

The UCSF Memory and Aging Center is excited to announce filmmaker and Atlantic Fellow Zach Bandler as the inaugural recipient of the Miller Artist in Residence Program. This prestigious residency honors Harriet Bernice Sanders Miller, MFA—an artist fascinated with botany, cell biology, and medical illustration—and her husband Milton Miller, MD, professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences.

Shifting the Narrative, Bringing Light to Younger-Onset Dementia

Younger-onset dementia is often unseen and misunderstood. Yet it impacts people in their 30’s to mid-60’s globally. Nearly 4 million people worldwide are living with younger-onset dementia. However, when you multiply that by a family of 4, that's almost 16 million people that are navigating this diagnosis and this doesn't include those undiagnosed, misdiagnosed or whose loved ones have passed.