Real-Time Advice Could Have Been a Game-Changer for These Dementia Caregivers
“Mom continually accused me of stealing her money to travel,” Vicki Tapia, author of Somebody Stole My Iron, says. “Nothing I could say or do convinced her otherwise, leaving me both frustrated and upset.” After her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, followed closely by her father with Parkinson’s disease-related dementia, Tapia struggled to find practical, helpful information to light her way. “It would have saved me much distress and been very helpful had there been an experienced guide I could have asked for advice,” she says.
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Source: Minding Our Elders - Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs