Does Alzheimer’s Caregiving Strain Family Relationships?

Are relationships strained among family members when caring for parents with Alzheimer’s or similar dementia?  If so, what can we do about it?

Sometimes nothing, because family members become too emotional?  Or they’re focusing on the financial rather than the personal needs of the family member.

Or, they can look at the situation, not without emotion or caring, but with concern for everyone involved.  Yes, some family members will do more than others…simply because it’s logistics, their work situation, they don’t have children, or it’s their nature.

An article in BellevilleNewsDemocrat.com refers to this situation, “Decisions about aging parents revive conflicts in adult siblings.“  Mention of the article also is found in Alzheimer’s Daily News with a link to the Belleville News Democrat.