When you love someone with Alzheimer’s, the disease can rob you of your relationship. It also affects everyone else in the family—the children, siblings, and grandchildren who are left behind to care for their loved ones.
What do you do when your spouse is diagnosed with this disease that progressively affects the brain and limits one’s ability to remember, think, communicate or take care of themselves?
Is it possible to maintain a loving marriage when your spouse has Alzheimer’s?
Join me in this conversion with Mary S. Daniel.
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Timestamps:
[00:00] Introduction to Mary S. Daniel.
[02:04] You have a very interesting story about working as a dishwasher to care for your husband who had dementia?
[04:16] What was the reunion like? Did your husband recognize you?
[08:07] What was the hardest thing you had to do while your husband was in the nursing home?
[13:09] How is your husband now?
[17:40] What advice would you give to other caregivers if they are caring for a spouse or a loved one with dementia?
[32:05] The Essential Caregivers Act and what it will take to increase caregivers’ rights?
[42:14] Why are so many people pushing against the bill when it could give many caregivers more time off, so they can take care of their own children or family members during difficult times?
[50:12] Is there anything else that you would like to add?
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Bio:
Mary S. Daniel is a Board-Certified Patient Advocate and the founder/CEO of ClaimMedic and the Daniel Advocacy Group. Mary’s husband, Steve was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2013 at the age of 59. He has been a resident at Rosecastle at Deerwood Memory Care Center since July 2019. In July 2020, Mary gained national attention after taking a job as a dishwasher at Rosecastle so that she could spend time with Steve after being separated for 114 days during the lockdown due to COVID-19. Mary founded the Facebook group Caregivers for Compromise.
Learn more about Mary S. Daniel:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marysdaniel/
