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What I Want If I Get Alzheimer's Disease
Burton Reifler, MD, MPH
Arch Fam Med. 1995;4(5):395-396.
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DEAR FRANCES: Since I treat a lot of patients with Alzheimer's disease, I've had a chance to see what's wrong with our system of health care (if you can even call it a system).
The problem is too much emphasis on the extremes: the caregiver either going it alone at home or finally resorting to a nursing home after getting worn out. Now there is a middle ground, and I want you to know about it just in case I have bad luck and get Alzheimer's disease myself.
The middle ground is an adult day center and that's where I want to go. Enroll me for 2 or 3 days a week so that I can have some fun while you play tennis and go shopping. (Yes, fun. It's a bad disease, but life doesn't have to end with a diagnosis.) If I want to think of it as going
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Author Affiliations
Bowman Gray School of Medicine Winston-Salem, NC
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