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posted 07/21/2008, comment (1)

Support For the Children of Parents With Early On-set Alzheimer’s Necessary

The law of nature is that parents have children and care for their children until the children grow up to care for themselves. Far too often, this "law" is circumvented by reality. A parent dies young from cancer. A parent is disabled in a car accident or gets Multiple Sclerosis. Or a parent gets early on-set Alzheimer's... Read more Chevron

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posted 05/28/2008, comments (3)

Early On-set Dementia: The Challenge of Getting People to Understand

I have a son who has struggled, since early grade school, with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. He's had to try to make people understand what it's like for a child to live with what people perceive as "an old people's disease." That was the first thing I thought of when I read Richard Bozanich's article in the American... Read more Chevron

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