The Alzheimer’s Spouse
We begin a marriage with vows, which we fully intend on keeping. We promise to have and to hold in good times in and bad, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health. Few, if any of us, however anticipate what that promise would demand should Alzheimer’s take hold of our partner. In The Alzheimer’s Spouse, Mary K Doyle gently guides readers through the challenges spouses face in the midst of Alzheimer’s. She offers understanding, information, and guidance from thorough research, a graduate degree in pastoral theology, and personal experience—her husband, Marshall Brodien, suffered symptoms of this disease for at least 15 years.
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