Being a Primary Carer for a relative with Alzheimers disease The Long Goodbye
I am a Carer. There you go, straight off the bat as they say, I write this article (the first in a series) in my role as a Primary Carer first and author second. At present I am the primary carer for my elderly mother who is suffering from the advance stages of Alzheimers disease. It is desperately cruel disease (most are, I know) in that it robs people (by and large) of their dignity and their independence at a stage in life when they need it most.
In the United Kingdom, the Alzheimers Society claimed in a recent survey that over 750,000 people suffered from Alzheimers and related dementia problems. In the United States it is calculated that an estimated 4.5 million people suffer from Alzheimers and that this figure has doubled since 1980.
Further alarming statistics highlight the fact that it is possible that in the US alone, the number of people suffering from Alzheimers could more than double to between 11.5 and 13 million sufferers by 2050.
Alzheimers disease is what is described as a progressive disorder of the brain that gradually destroys a persons memory, ability...
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