Caring for a Family Member with Alzheimer’s Disease

Editor's note, this post originally appeared on the blog A R E T E In Memory of Our Sister, Mary Ann Morgan, R.N., B.S.N., M.S.N. Our mother, Margaret Lyon Morgan, died of a terrible disease, which some have described as “death in slow motion.” It’s called Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Those who work with dying people realize it is not death they fear but a painful dying. And one of the longest and most difficult endings is for those with Alzheimer’s–and those who witness this process suffer with them, often silently. Our mother suffered with dementia, probably Alzheimer’s before it