The Alzheimer's Project - Season 1 Episode 2 The Memory Loss Tapes
There are currently 10 million Americans providing 8.5 billion hours of unpaid care to people with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias, according to an estimate from the Alzheimer's Association. Seventy percent of people with Alzheimer's live at home, cared for by family and friends. As Bill Couturié explains: "Not only is it very expensive to pay for care in a nursing home, but the patient is someone you love a lot - a mother, father, spouse. Someone who has taken care of you, and so it's only natural to want to take care of them." Alzheimer's can take a great toll on the physical and emotional well-being not just of the patient, but of the caregiver as well. "It's not uncommon for the caregiver to die before the patient. It's a 24/7 job and often the caregiver has no help.
Year: 2009
Genre: Documentary
Country: United States of America
Studio: HBO
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Crew: Veronica Brady (Producer), Eamon Harrington (Producer), Maria Shriver (Executive Producer), John Watkin (Producer), Sheila Nevins (Executive Producer), John Hoffman (Producer)
First Air Date: May 10, 2009
Last Air date: May 11, 2009
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 5 Episode
Runtime: 90 minutes
IMDb: 4.70/10 by 3.00 users
Popularity: 1.8296
Language: English
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