With Valerie Bertinelli, Love, Again explores the struggle of Alzheimer's and caregiving

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A couple married for 35 years slowly walks through a hospital following an appointment with a doctor to hear the results of recently taken tests.They’re in shock over the news they’ve just received as their hands come together and clasp tightly, realizing that a major battle is coming sooner rather than later.In the Lifetime movie “Love, Again,” premiering at 8 p.m.

PT Saturday on Lifetime, that unfortunate battle is early-onset Alzheimer’s and it’s the diagnosis 60-year-old Judge Henry Stanford (Henry Czerny) receives after he’s been masking increased forgetfulness and lying to his loving wife, Caroline (Valerie Bertinelli), about keeping up with his regular medical checkups.As time passes in the film, written by Nancey Silvers and directed by David I.Strasser, Henry’s health declines and Caroline does her best to be the sole caregiver to her husband but experiences the responsibility’s weight both physically and emotionally.“Caroline is so vulnerable, but she’s very much like me where you’re strong and no matter what’s going on that’s scary or unpleasant in your life, you still have to go and do what you need to do,” says Bertinelli, who is also an executive producer on the project.The film’s subject matter is not one that Silvers had direct personal experience with, but when she was asked to explore writing a movie on the subject, her producing colleague Linda L.

Kent began sharing a story about a friend going through the experience of Alzheimer’s with a spouse.However, Silvers stopped her before she shared too much, saying, “I don’t want to know anything except the emotions of what she went through, how she dealt with it and what was the hardest part.

I don’t need the specifics because that’s what I’ll come up with by myself.”The writer, who is the daughter of beloved comic Phil Silvers, had seen the 2014 film “Still Alice,”...