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The challenge is in learning how to live with Alzheimer’s not dying with it.

Caregiving is love work. It’s invisible work. And it’s exhausting.

The challenges of home caregiving are anticipated to grow in years to come as Baby Boomers continue to age.

As we head into the holiday season, the seminal film National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation has been an annual fixture at our house on Cape Cod since the movie was first released 36 years ago.

My wife Mary Catherine and I, and our kids, repeat keynote lines in great anticipation before they’re even delivered. We all laugh like little children, as if it’s the first time we’ve ever heard the uproarious lines.

To paraphrase Clark Griswold, played by Chevy Chase: if we all woke up tomorrow with our heads sewn to the carpet, we

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