Battling Alzheimer

 A quick search on your favorite search engine will certainly lead you to information and services for caregivers.  However, you will have to dig a little deeper to figure out how Alzheimer’s disease impacts teenagers and children who have parents, grandparents or other family members who are battling Alzheimer’s.

Children and teens tend to be resilient and creative.  Sometimes, they just need a little prompting and they can take over and figure things out.  One day, in frustration, I sat my mom and my son at the kitchen table, gave them both crayons and prayed for a moment of peace.  Well, it was one of the best days we’d had in a long time.  Mom really enjoyed coloring and my son thoroughly enjoyed helping her to select colors and decide what to draw.

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I was officially in the “sandwich generation.”  That growing number of people who have responsibility for their own children on one end of the spectrum and aging parents on the other.  And honestly, some days it felt as If I would be consumed by all of the responsibilities. 

True, the juggling of responsibilities and schedules was challenging, but appointments can be changed and most errands can be done at a later time.  For me, the greater challenges were emotional.  Case in point.

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