Moving can be overwhelming at any stage of life. But it's exponentially more difficult for older adults with Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia, for whom any change in routine or ...

Moving can be overwhelming at any stage of life. But it’s exponentially more difficult for older adults with Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia, for whom any change in routine or ...

The move to a long-term care facility is often difficult but necessary for frail patients. For their partners, it can mean a new set of challenges. By Paula Span Even as the signals of approaching ...

My father-in-law lives several hours away from us. He has mid-stage dementia; he is a "sundowner" - as the day progresses, he increasingly forgets where he is and how he got there (he is in his home ...

I had to make a decision. Would I take my first leisure trip without my wife in ... well, it seems like forever ... to see our grandkids 2,000 miles away? Marsha and I have been married over 40 years.

Women speak at a 2023 senior health fair in Moosic, Pennsylvania. Dementia’s most-known symptoms are memory loss and confusion. If an older adult starts placing their house keys in a strange place or ...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the obligations we have to a spouse with a degenerative illness. By Kwame Anthony Appiah My husband of 52 years was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease 10 years ago ...