Spouse

You Don’t Stop Being a Caregiver When Your Spouse Enters Memory Care

Dear Carol: My 56-year-old husband recently went into memory care. I visit every morning and often in the evening because, even though...

Sarah Akin hopes this holiday that caregivers give themselves a little grace — and that visiting family do the same. Akin, who is...

According to the Lewy Body Dementia Association (LBDA), Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) is a progressive brain disease. They say that it also...

While death rarely brings pleasant feelings, from time to time we’ll see a story about death go viral on the Internet because...

Traditional marriage vows generally contain the words “through sickness and in health.” For some couples, chronic sickness in the form of a...

Dear Carol: My wife has always been interested in style and appearance, so regular hair and nail appointments were part of life. Long...

When people get married, they quickly learn that they’ve made a commitment to more than one person. Essentially, you marry your spouse’s...

We live in a society that tends to value what we do over who we are. If what we do isn’t highly...

Dear Carol: My mother with dementia has developed a fixation on the silver she sold years ago, and she repeatedly accuses me of...

Dear Carol: My wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s eight years ago. While it hasn’t been easy keeping her home with me, it’s...