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Caring for Your Parents: Caring for Caretakers

Caretakers of people with dementia are twice as likely to get sick themselves

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Story Updated: Nov 15, 2012

ANCHORAGE - Caring for a family member with Alzheimer’s can be an exhausting job that goes well beyond a 9 to 5 schedule. Often, the people who look after their loved ones are on duty 24-7. June Juleson knows that first hand; her husband Dick was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s ten years ago.

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