Orlando Sentinal
Bard Lindeman | Special To The Sentinel
The inherent frustrations of Alzheimer's disease, along with the frightening aspects linked to this incurable and fatal anomaly, came tumbling out of our weekly mailbag.
Here were strong voices, demanding to be heard:
"I was disappointed with your [recent] Alzheimer's article, which made it seem totally useless to try to do anything for it," begins an agitated woman in Central Florida. "My [late] husband, a thoughtful, caring individual right up to his death . . . did take Aricept, which I felt helped him immensely . . ."
Perhaps, yet family members in the unwelcome role as caregivers, on call day and night, cannot be expected to serve as objective evaluators. In The Forgetting: Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic, (Doubleday; 2001) author David Shenk paints a scene in which a caregiver... read the whole article
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