Alzheimer's and The Invisible Siblings

Many of us who are the One have experienced intense disappointment, hurt, and anger when we feel like we've been abandoned to our mission by those with an equal stake in our loved one’ s care.

Caregiving The Odyssey of Becoming More Human

Caregiving is one of those relationships and practices of self-cultivation that make us, even as we experience our limits and failures, more human.....
By Bob DeMarco

The following is an excerpt from a well written, thought provoking article by Arthur Kleinman that appears in Harvard Magazine.

But, to use the close experiential language of actually doing it, caregiving is also a defining moral practice. It is a practice of empathic imagination, responsibility, witnessing, and solidarity with those in great need. It is a moral practice that makes caregivers, and at times even the care-receivers, more present and thereby fully human.