Marie Cloud

Stolen Memories: One Family's Experience with Alzheimer's Disease Marie Cloud

STOLEN MEMORIES deals with the impact of being a caregiver for a parent and how it not only affects ones job and family, but also ones mental and physical health. This story deals with the guilt that caregivers often carry as the gradually have to invade their parents privacy in order to keep them safe everything from having to take a drivers license away, to having to put a parent into an Alzheimers care facility. Marie encounters feelings of helplessness as she has to go against her mothers wishes in order to care for her. Later her struggles through her own dark depression as the hopeless prognosis of Alzheimers disease takes its toll on her entire family, understands her agonizing sense that no matter what she did, it wasnt enough. STOLEN MEMORIES deals with real issues that confront many of us. It is important that those who have been through caring for a parent with Alzheimers disease share their stories, as these experiences may help someone recognize and deal with this disease in its early stages.