There is a continuum of Alzheimer’s caregiving that runs from Burden to Joy. By Bob DeMarco Alzheimer’s Reading Room You are what you think. How you think and the thoughts you think determine how you feel, perceive the world, and act. Can how you think effect your Alzheimer’s caregiving effort? Can how you act effect your caregiving effort? Can how you talk and the words you use effect your caregiving effort? Can how you speak to a person living with Alzheimer’s effect how they feel and act? You bet it can. Subscribe to the Alzheimer’s Reading Room Email: There are about 30,000 total comments on this website (I lost some when I changed systems). Add about 6,000 emails to that total (I lost some of those also). I read every comment and every email (well I am a little behind on the emails right now). Here is what I learned. There is a continuum of Alzheimer’s caregiving that runs from Burden to Joy. Over the last couple of years, I have watched a long list of caregivers move along the continuum from Burden to Joy. I watch. I pay attention.

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