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Friends and family who care for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease or another fatal illness find end-of-life care rewarding, despite the stiff demands and emotional turmoil of providing such care. Those are the findings from a new study in the Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the journals from the American Medical Association.
The last two months of my husband’s life I slept next to the bed Hospice had set up in our living room. At night, I lay on the loveseat I’d come to hate and listen intently to his labored breathing. It was what I did when my kids were babies-listen intently for the next breath to make sure everything was okay.