Dementia Alters Marital Relationships
Tracy Mobley is only 45 years old, and has been living with Early Onset Dementia/Frontal Lobe Dementia for 7 years. She writes poignantly about how her illness has affected her marriage.
Online, March 3, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Tracy Mobley is only 45 years old, and has been living with Early Onset Dementia/Frontal Lobe Dementia for 7 years. She is the author of Young Hope, The Broken Road, and founder of Camp Building Bridges, a respite camp for youngsters of parents with dementia. Tracy continues her monthly guest blogging series on www.thealzheimerspouse.com, with her latest blog - "I Miss You", in which she discusses the changes her Early Onset Dementia/FTD has brought to her marriage from her point of view.
The spouses on The Alzheimer Spouse Website - www.thealzheimerspouse.com - discuss every issue related to marriage and Alzheimer's Disease/dementia from their own perspective. They discuss how their spouses' changes in personality and abilities have impacted their relationship and offer support and advice on how to cope with them. Joan Gershman, founder of the website, writes daily blogs from her own perspective, about how she is coping with the relationship changes Alzheimer's Disease brought to her marriage when her husband was diagnosed at age 63.
With Tracy's writing, the care giving spouses are afforded the rare opportunity to hear the perspective of the spouse with dementia. Her point of view helps the care giving spouses understand their own spouses emotions that their dementia may prevent them from expressing.
Tracy's latest blog - "I Miss You" can be read at www.thealzheimerspouse.com