Holidays with 'Generation Alzheimer's'
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(CNN)-- Judy Warzenski didn't recognize exactly how bad her dad, Donald's, memory had gotten until he relied on her sister Joyce and asked, "Where's the girl who was sitting next to you?" He did not acknowledge Joyce as his own little girl. This Thanksgiving, Warzenski and her younger siblings will certainly eat Thanksgiving dinner with their dad in an exclusive dining space at a nursing home in Pennsylvania. Moving her dad there in October was an agonizing decision. "It's really very upsetting to me," stated Warzenski, 62, of central New Jersey. "I promised him I would never do this. I promised him I would never put him in a nursing home, which I've come to realize is an unrealistic promise."
Warzenski is one of many individuals baby boomers who need to watch their enjoyed ones suffer from Alzheimer's, the most typical form of dementia.
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| 0.481252 | "been extremely supportive" overall, Carey says. ... |
| 0.0925367 | "I haven't set fire to the house yet," Carey said. ... |
| 0.0745506 | "I haven't set fire to the house yet," Carey said. "I'm sure Larry will tell me when I reach that point." |
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Laura Wayman
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| 0.150997 | "Often, the baby boomers are thrust into the position of caring for a loved one with dementia because that loved one declines and needs 24-hour supervision," said Laura Wayman, ... |
| 0.173554 | "Often, the baby boomers are thrust into the position of caring for a loved one with dementia because that loved one declines and needs 24-hour supervision," said Laura Wayman, a dementia care specialist and author of "A Loving Approach to Dementia Care." |
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| -0.271027 | Mike of Massachusetts writes in an e-mail that he is "Feeling as if I've lost my wife and had her replaced by a child who looks like her." |
| 0 | "I feel as if we can't really talk seriously about anything anymore, and I have to make all of the decisions in our lives," Mike said. ... |
| -0.31338 | "We are rarely physically intimate anymore, and when we are, she's pretty much forgotten what to do," Mike said. ... |
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Judy Warzenski
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| -0.616377 | "It's really very upsetting to me," said Warzenski, ... |
| -0.304311 | "It's really very upsetting to me," said Warzenski, 62, of central New Jersey. "I promised him I would never do this. I promised him I would never put him in a nursing home, which I've come to realize is an unrealistic promise." |
| 0.345364 | "For him to pass would be a blessing to him," Warzenski said. ... |
| 0.279912 | "For him to pass would be a blessing to him," Warzenski said. "He was a police officer. If he ever realized what had become of him, he would be mortified." |
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HealthCondition: Alzheimer
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Organization: Alzheimer's Association
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The Alzheimer's Association says that unless a treatment or cure is found, Alzheimer's "will become the defining disease of the Baby Boom Generation."
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