{"id":49110,"date":"2015-03-31T14:40:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T14:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_caring_for_alzheimers_how_three_couples_cope\/"},"modified":"2015-03-31T14:40:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T14:40:06","slug":"wsj_caring_for_alzheimers_how_three_couples_cope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49110","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Caring for Alzheimer\u2019s: How Three Couples Cope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After dinner, Mr. Iero washes Mr. Myers\u2019s face and hands with a hot washcloth in his room and trims his mustache and eyebrows. As Mr. Iero leads Mr. Myers down the hallway to the lobby for dessert, a female resident grabs Mr. Myers\u2019s hand. The trio slowly shuffles along.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo we know who she is?\u201d\u009d Mr. Myers mumbles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, we know who she is, Paul,\u201d\u009d Mr. Iero says reassuringly.<\/p>\n<p>His days are long. Prepping food in the morning for Mr. Myers. Grocery shopping after work. The 30-minute drive home in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just a horrible, horrible disease,\u201d\u009d Mr. Iero says. When someone dies, \u201cyou lose that someone but then you go on. You have some closure. With Alzheimer\u2019s it\u2019s just an ongoing reminder of what you lost.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/caring-for-alzheimers-how-three-couples-cope-1427735471?mod=e2tw\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After dinner, Mr. Iero washes Mr. Myers\u2019s face and hands with a hot washcloth in his room and trims his mustache and eyebrows. As Mr. Iero leads Mr. Myers down the hallway to the lobby for dessert, a female resident<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49110\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,103,175,168,104,98,177,129,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-aging-the-elderly","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}