Chris Hemsworth talks signs of Alzheimer’s before dad’s diagnosis

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His father first treated it as ‘no big deal’ but then the Marvel actor decided to actively counter this and began thinking of ‘doing something around brain health’ with his dad.

He decided to share his test results with the world, and his father, Craig Hemsworth, was all in. The duo hoped to spread awareness and ‘shed some light’ on Alzheimer’s. They also reckoned they might learn something about the disease on the way.

“He says it in the documentary, but his biggest concern was being a burden. And that was heartbreaking to hear and consider,” Hemsworth shared, he went on to add, “And I had never even, up until we shot the documentary, I didn’t know even how he felt about it, you know, because I hadn’t asked him.”

The Road Trip documentary went on to become a motorcycle journey where the father and son investigate the disease and take a radical approach to therapy for Alzheimer’s.

The duo travel from Melbourne to the Northern Territories, and they try out extreme reminiscence therapy with help from the University of New South Wales, where they explore and recreate areas and times that were important to Craig in his life.

They use their production budget, and the Hemsworth boys go back to a near-perfect recreation of their first family home. The details they got down included the Point Break posters and jars of Vegemite.Continue reading…

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