http://acaregiversjournal.com/the-sad-side-of-caregiving-for-family-members-with-dementia.html Insights and Shared Stories by Family Caregivers Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:31:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://acaregiversjournal.com/the-sad-side-of-caregiving-for-family-members-with-dementia.html/comment-page-1#comment-529 Hattie Thu, 07 May 2009 18:53:04 +0000 http://acaregiversjournal.com/?p=735#comment-529 I mean Dr. Butler, of course, in the last paragraph. I mean Dr. Butler, of course, in the last paragraph.

]]> http://acaregiversjournal.com/the-sad-side-of-caregiving-for-family-members-with-dementia.html/comment-page-1#comment-528 Hattie Thu, 07 May 2009 18:52:03 +0000 http://acaregiversjournal.com/?p=735#comment-528 I feel very sympathetic towards both you and Gladys and the rest of your family. A book I am reading now, *The Longevity Revolution,* by Dr. Robert Butler, is filled with warnings about the future of old age in this country. An old friend of ours just had a stroke. He is divorced and has no children. Basically, we and our circle are his support system, and yet we, too, face advancing age and we have our grandkids to think about as well. One thing that strikes me is his comment that we really don't (as a culture) like old people. We admire youth. We want to think of ourselves as young. This is the reason, he feels, there is so little attention paid to the needs of old people and also why there is so little research on dementia, Alzheimers, and other age associated disorders. I feel very sympathetic towards both you and Gladys and the rest of your family. A book I am reading now, *The Longevity Revolution,* by Dr. Robert Butler, is filled with warnings about the future of old age in this country.
An old friend of ours just had a stroke. He is divorced and has no children. Basically, we and our circle are his support system, and yet we, too, face advancing age and we have our grandkids to think about as well.
One thing that strikes me is his comment that we really don’t (as a culture) like old people. We admire youth. We want to think of ourselves as young. This is the reason, he feels, there is so little attention paid to the needs of old people and also why there is so little research on dementia, Alzheimers, and other age associated disorders.

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