Ep 13 | Dementia Caregiving and Family Guilt: Our Mother's 10-Year Journey
Dementia caregiving can affect an entire family long before anyone feels prepared for what lies ahead.
In this personal episode of the Aging Parent Podcast, Valerie Upham sits down with her sister Kim to talk candidly about their mother's journey with vascular dementia—from the early signs they didn't initially understand to diagnosis, memory care, hospice, family stress, caregiver guilt, and eventually saying goodbye.
Their mother's early dementia symptoms weren't limited to forgetting things. She began withdrawing, stopped doing activities she once enjoyed, struggled to find words, repeated…
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