Thursday, March 1, 2012

Finding Joy in Alzheimer's

Finding Joy in Alzheimer's - NYTimes.com: Given our aging population and the Alzheimer’s epidemic, it’s essential that we reassess our thinking about the elderly and old age dementia. Certainly, a great deal of pain and hardship can accompany life’s third act (and, for that matter, any of its acts). But what I learned from my grandmother’s journey through Alzheimer’s was that my grief regarding her condition had largely to do with my failure to accept the change she was undergoing.

Robert Leleux is the author of “The Living End: A Memoir of Forgetting and Forgiving,” from St. Martin’s Press.

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