Two Articles on Caregiving

Thanks to Rich Bozanich, one of the organizers up the upcoming Early Memory Loss Forum, for sending a link to a New York Times article "Zen and the Art of Coping With Alzheimer's. " The point of the article is that caregivers must learn to "go with the flow," since neither scientists nor politicians have done much about Alzheimer's.

The second article, "Exhaustion, anger of caregiving get a name," is on CNN's web site, and is about the growing recognition of the mental and physical health problems caused by caregiving. The article quotes Peter Vitaliano, a professor at the University of Washington who studies caregiver health. If you'd like more details, I wrote about Dr. Vitaliano's work in a post last summer.

Comments

[Patty McNally Doherty]

Thanks for the article link - Zen and the Art of Coping with Alzheimer's. Iwas so impressed with the writer, and the topic, and the way the information was communicated, I wrote her a letter. Hopefully, more writers will start focusing on this disease and the truck will be pushed up the hill.

Hope all is well with you. Things have been really crazy here. I'll write more on it soon on the blog, just waiting for the dust to settle first.

Patty

[Karma]

It sent me to a general new york times login page. Does anyone have suggestions for how I can see the article if I'm not a subscriber?

[Mona Johnson]

Hi Karma,

If you go to http://www.nytimes.com/gst/regi.html, you can register for free. This will give you access to quite a bit of content. Hope this helps!

Mona