'Travel to unimaginable lands': a first-person investigation into how the healthy brain reacts to one with Alzheimer's. Clinical psychologist Dasha Kiper, with the same scientific and literary intelligence as Oliver Sacks, reflects on the ethical and vital challenges faced by caregivers.
The men and women of all ages with whom this clinical psychologist works, love those they serve, but their grandparents, their parents, their partners cannot be aware of the exhausting, maddening challenge they face. “While caregivers can certainly sense the stress that dementia patients feel, patients with dementia are rarely able to get a sense of what their caregivers are experiencing”