My name is Bob DeMarco, I am an Alzheimer’s caregiver. My mother Dorothy, now 93 years old, suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. For those of you that have been here for a while, you know that I am adamant about the importance of finding a personal care physician that is fully familiar with Alzheimer’s disease. In fact, I believe this is the most important decision you will ever make in a fight against Alzheimer’s disease. Sadly, our incredibly competent, loving, caring, personal care physician–Dr. Carlos Chiriboga–died last week. Carlos Chiriboga was a young man. He is survived by his loving wife, and three young children ages 3-12 years old. Dr. Chiriboga died from a complication during surgery. His death was unexpected. Subscribe to The Alzheimer’s Reading Room–via Email It would be impossible for me to describe the feeling of sadness I am experiencing right now. It has been difficult for me to come on the blog this week. Hard to read my email and make the necessary responses. In the last year, I took my mother to see Dr. Chiriboga 27 times. You can imagine the number of problems that we were experiencing with my mother to go into his office that often. Most of the time when I need to take my mother to the doctor, she goes kicking and screaming (my mother always says the same thing–I don’t need a doctor, “I am a healthy old broad”.) Every time, every time, when we walked out of Dr. Chiriboga’s office my mother walked out with a smile on here face, and in a very good mood.

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