Still Alice depicts the story of Alice Howland, a renowned linguistics professor at Columbia University, who shortly after celebrating her 50th birthday with her husband and three children, begins to notice a decline in her memory. At first, it was just a word that went missing in one of her lectures, but as time goes on the signs worsen. Alice decides to see a neurologist who eventually diagnoses her with Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease. The severity and guilt of the diagnosis hits Alice hard, especially when she realizes that her three children could also be at risk. As her short-term memory continues to decline, Alice devises ways of coping and maintaining her current life. One way in particular was by adding numerous notes and questions
