ABSTRACT
“To be aging and ill requires the greatest courage, it seems to me. To see someone taking care of a wife or husband with Alzheimer's disease, for example, opens the door to a particular kind of hell that must take extraordinary courage to confront every day. For those who must take care of the afflicted, it is a life haunted by financial fears as well as the agony of a loved one's life ending. To face this kind of aging, day after day without faltering, demands courage of the highest order.”
