AGING AMERICA: Caregivers urge action as Obama administration drafts national Alzheimer’s plan

September 13, 2011

As her mother’s Alzheimer’s worsened over eight long years, so did Doreen Alfaro’s bills: The walker, then the wheelchair, then the hospital bed, then the diapers — and the caregivers hired for more and more hours a day so Alfaro could go to work and her elderly father could get some rest. (Washington Post)