💛 Learning to Be an Alzheimer’s Caregiver (AARP Article)

[Winter2025VA]

FROM THE ARTICLE.

Chanting with the Cat: Learning to Be an Alzheimer’s Caregiver.

My husband’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis left us unmoored. Daily meditation grounds me.

By Elaine Handley, AARP. Published August 06, 2025.

Alzheimer’s,” the neurologist said, like he was giving us a weather report. No eye contact but a clinical rundown of infusions B could get and possible side effects: brain swelling, brain bleeds, death.

No expression of regret. No acknowledgment of the gut punch we had just taken. Maybe that was good — skating across the surface of the news helped us get out of his office upright. He said we could think about the infusions — maybe they’d buy us six months. When I asked, beyond that, what would be next, he said, “We monitor."

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