💛 How to Handle Your Second Chance at Caregiving (AARP Article)

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💛 How to Handle Your Second Chance at Caregiving (AARP Article)

FROM THE ARTICLE.

Caregiving Again? How Experience Transforms Your Next Journey.

Discover ways to approach caregiving differently the next time around.

By Paul Wynn, AARP. Published July 03, 2025.

For nearly two decades, Daniel and Ellen Potts of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, have answered the call of caregiving again and again. Between them, they have provided hands-on care and emotional support for nine family members and close friends — including, today, a beloved friend from their church community who is in the moderate stages of Alzheimer’s disease.

Their journey began as kids when both of them had grandparents with Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia. As adults, their first intimate experience was with Daniel’s father, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2001. At the time, Daniel was a private-practice neurologist, well versed in the clinical side of neurodegenerative diseases. But the personal impact hit him harder than he anticipated.

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https://www.aarp.org/caregiving/basics/caregiver-second-chance.html