Alzheimer’s

Helping Yourself When Someone You Care About Has Alzheimer’s

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    by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. Someone you love has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. You probably did not expect things to turn out this way.  Emotionally, you may be finding it hard to accept the diagnosis even as you are caught up in planning for your loved one’s present and future […]

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Grieving the loss of a mother to Alzheimer’s

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To those losing loved ones to Alzheimer’s, I did not notice subtle changes in my mother’s behavior because my focus was on my father’s loss of memory, poor decision making, and constant repetition. I was busy engaging my mother’s support to help dad. Dad and I were teaching mom how to write checks to pay

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