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Case Western Reserve University study examines changing roles, emotions in caregiving
11-27-2006 · EurekAlert!The early stages when a spouse or an adult child becomes a caregiver for someone with Alzheimer's disease or another type of progressive dementia is fraught with a tug-of-war of emotions from resentment to protectiveness, according to a new study from the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University.
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