Category: Caregiver

I went to my favorite restaurant this morning for breakfast and had the privilege of sitting across from an older couple who were celebrating the forty-fifth anniversary of his marriage proposal to her. From the moment they sat down I could tell there was something different about their relationship. She spoke to him gently, almost…

When I was nine-years-old my grandfather died of pneumonia after battling for several years with early onset Alzheimer’s disease. He was fifty-six. When I look back on that time of his life I remember not only my grandfather and his bewildered state of mind, but the love my grandmother gave as his caregiver. I remember…