Citations:long goodbye

Alzheimer's or Alzheimer's-related

 * 1995 February 27, Tim Ryan, in “Love and Loss”, in People, volume 43, number 8:
 * They call Alzheimer's the long goodbye. And the difficulty of the long goodbye is that you grieve from the moment you first hear about it, because it's incurable.
 * 1999, Kevin Axe, "Saints Alive!" U.S. Catholic, vol. 64, no. 11:
 * Then my father-in-law died of Alzheimer's in 1998, and my mother-in-law got the same disease. . . . We are grateful we get to be with her, to pray with her, to sing with her during her long goodbye.
 * 2006, M. Vestergaard et al., "The Study of Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers," NanoBiotechnology, vol. 2, no. 1-2, p. 5:
 * The disease is often referred to as the “Long-Goodbye” because the person with the illness slowly becomes lost to everyone a long time before the body finally gives out.
 * 2009 May 14, “Alzheimer's Hits People At Earlier Ages”, on KETV.com:
 * They're hoping to hold off the long goodbye that Alzheimer's brings.
 * They're hoping to hold off the long goodbye that Alzheimer's brings.

Other

 * 2000, David Stripp, "Blessings from the Book of Life," Fortune, vol. 141, no. 5 (6 Mar):
 * Gene-inspired drugs to blunt diseases of aging will begin arriving to help deal with the T. rex of demographic trends: the baby-boomers' long goodbye.