Elaine and Paul Morgan each served as primary caregivers for their late spouses during their journeys with Alzheimer’s Disease. They both served several years on the board of directors for the North Central Texas Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association and are the co-founders of Senior Attention – a 501(c)(3) charity devoted to serving memory-impaired seniors and their caregivers. Elaine also serves as facilitator for several North Texas support groups for family caregivers of dementia patients.

Cammy Dunford is a native North Texan and retired Texas public school teacher. During her 30 years in education, she taught students in pre-K through college. Soon after returning to North Texas, her husband was diagnosed with early onset dementia. She now serves as his primary caregiver and as the group administrator for the Frisco Lakes Dementia Caregiver’s Support Group in Frisco, Texas. In that role, she has collected resources from dementia caregivers and maintains that collection on the group’s website.

The three co-authors’ collective experience in these roles has educated them to understand the concerns and issues of the family caregiver and to identify the specific internet websites that represent excellent resources of information, encouragement and actionable advice for each of these issues. As you read through the information presented here and drill down into the related links, just know that you are being guided by people who have walked a mile in your shoes as family caregivers themselves.

Click here to see a table of contents listing a wide variety of subject areas of interest to the family caregiver of a dementia patient. Click on the rectangle for each of these subject areas to see a list of specific topics within that subject area. Displayed at the end of each topic are the links to one or more resourceful websites where the caregiver can find even more information to educate and assist her in the performance of her duties as a family caregiver.