Challenging Bias and Negative
Attitudes about Alzheimer's Disease
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Where are the Home Caregivers?
Is It Guilt or Is It Grieving?
Do You Know This About Alzheimer's Disease?
Alzheimer's It's Just Another Way to Die!
Media Representation of Alzheimer's Disease
The Phil Donohue Show, 7/10/96
*Sometimes, A Bruise Is Just A Bruise
Caregiver stories
Marilyn and the Support Group Leader
Debi and the Well Meaning Friend
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Exploring how negative attitudes about Alzheimer's impact on our ability to function successfully as caregivers |
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Exploring how we, as caregivers, can empower ourselves by taking a more positive role in the caregiving tasks |
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Exploring the basic human essence of those who get this disease and re-affirming their rights for love, regard, and care. |
We caregivers need to be empowered, to see our tasks as tasks, and not as some very base reflection of drudgery if we are to survive. And, our people need us to reclaim their humanity from a world that tends to see them as already dead. What we are, is ordinary people doing an extraordinary job under very difficult circumstances and in that respect we are nothing less than heroic.
And don’t let anyone else tell you differently.
"It is insufficient to consider disease in purely mechanical or chemical terms, it must be considered equally in biological or metaphysical terms.
…One sees that beautiful and ultimate metaphysical truth, which has been stated by poets and physicians and metaphysicians in all ages…that love is the alpha and omega of being; and that the work of healing, or rendering whole, is first and last, the business of love."
Oliver Sacks. "Awakenings"