Palliative care empowers individuals living with dementia to live a meaningful life in accordance with their values, while also supporting t

Ask any new caregiver and they’ll likely tell you that nothing is more overwhelming than learning a loved one has dementia and now needs...

About three years after my wife Elaine was diagnosed with Alziemer’s, one of the nurses at the neurologist’s office asked me whether I’d...

There are a few basic truths that reveal themselves in almost every story of the early days of giving care to someone with a serious illness

Dementia care is a situation with a lot of hurrying, a lot of waiting, and a lot of overloaded senses. It's easy to carry around all of that

I met my First Elaine in 1953, when we were both freshmen at what is now called Milwaukee Lutheran High School in southeastern Wisconsin....

What is Respite Care? When someone else steps in to temporarily care for the person you care for in your absence.

Resilience is the ability to rebound from a crisis, tragedy, trauma or a serious case of ‘stress mess.’ Resiliency varies from person to...

You may be wondering just how long it might take to readjust to your life after your role as caregiver is over.