HealthLeaders Media November 23, 2021
New monitoring technology is helping family caregivers manage the relentless task of looking out for older adults with cognitive decline.
This article was published on Tuesday, November 23, 2021 in Kaiser Health News.
By Sofie Kodner
In the middle of a rainy Michigan night, 88-year-old Dian Wurdock walked out the front door of her son’s home in Grand Rapids, barefoot and coatless. Her destination was unknown even to herself.
Wurdock was several years into a dementia diagnosis that turned out to be Alzheimer’s disease. By luck, her son woke up and found her before she stepped too far down the street. As the Alzheimer’s progressed, so did her wandering and with it, her children’s anxiety.
“I was losing it,” said...
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