This dynamic video offers insight, hope, and understanding for anyone who cares for a loved one with Alzheimer's. This disease without cure currently afflicts more than 30 million people and there are no treatments to halt its progression, making caregiving both essential-and difficult.
Topics discussed include:
~ Caring for one who doesn't remember your name
~ Grieving the losses of their life, and yours
~ When an unexpected side of your loved one comes out
~ When it feels like your love no longer helps
~ Struggling with denial
~ Hungering for simple recognition
~ Feelings of failure and guilt
~ How to handle frustration and anger
~ How to care for you-physically, emotionally, spiritually-while you care for someone else
~ Feeling exhausted - and what to do, when that happens
~ Finding support - on the Web, through the telephone, or in person
~ Allowing someone else to care for your loved one
~ Times when laughter, singing, and foolishness are entirely appropriate!
~ When you worry about making other people comfortable
~ Learning to accept the person that s/he is now - there is no going back
~ The courage and sacrifice of an Alzheimer's caregiver
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