What to give the Alzheimer’s caregiver in your family… the person who is spending the most time, taking the most responsibility, experiencing more sleepless nights, and doing most of the other tasks involved with caring for the person with memory loss?
Here are ten ideas to make that person feel special:
1. DVD of a special movie
2. Set of CDs of favorite music
3. Tea set with specialty teas
4. Pretty sweater
5. Bath salts, bubble bath, body wash gift set
6. Lunch out
7. Two hours a week care to give her free time
8. Wash and set, perhaps a perm, at a beauty shoppe
9.  Gift basket of …read more

I’ve mentioned gifts you can give the Alzheimer’s patient, but haven’t thought of the caregiver.  They need remembering, too, at Christmas and birthdays and “just because.”
Why not give them a “gift certificate” for a day or evening out with you taking care of the Alzheimer’s patient?  Make up a card with a “certificate” for time away. 
Perhaps you can even arrange for their spouse or another family member to take the caregiver out for something special.  Or organize a gathering of some friends at a restaurant or for a show. 
Decide what the caregiver or caregivers (if husband and wife) like to …read more