Meet the Alzheimer’s Patient Who Helped Julianne Moore Get Nominated for an Oscar

January 16, 2015

(ABC News) – On her 50th birthday, Sandy Oltz sat on the film set of “Still Alice” and listened to actress Julianne Moore speak a line that Oltz, an early onset Alzheimer’s patient, had struggled to write. “Please do not think I am suffering. I am not suffering,” Moore said as the character of Alice Howland. “I am struggling, struggling to be a part of things, to stay connected to who I once was.” Playing a woman with early onset Alzheimer’s disease, Moore was giving a speech to a fake meeting of the Alzheimer’s Association. It’s a position that Oltz has been in many times before.