How can I muster a sense of gratitude as a caregiver amid the arduous journey of Alzheimer’s disease?

For some caregivers, it is difficult to invoke gratitude, to have a thankful spirit during the journey of Alzheimer’s disease with a loved one. And, combined with the seemingly endless disasters and devastations, and things known and unknown to us, these life’s difficulties pull us into often disordered lives and make it nearly impossible to see how we’re supposed to have feelings of gratefulness as Thanksgiving nears.

It is normal to have some form of guilt or shame for not feeling the emotion of thankfulness. The day-to-day responsibilities of caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s are overwhelming and stressful, and feelings of gratitude, most often, are the last thoughts on the care

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