Tag: Alzheimer’s disease
![Photo of Jacquelyn](https://crr.bc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/caregiver-art-caption-1.png.webp)
Jacquelyn had finally snared her dream job as an assistant to a television writer in New York City. Riding the subway one Saturday night, she got a call that changed all that. Her mother, who was living with her grandmother, was in trouble back home. Jacquelyn returned to find rotting food in the refrigerator and…
![A doctor giving a older woman medicine](https://crr.bc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/iStock-508633129.png.webp)
An advocate for improving care and federal oversight in assisted living facilities succinctly described the experience of searching for a safe place for a loved one. “The assisted living sector operates under a caveat emptor – let the buyer beware – principle,” Richard Mollot, executive director of the Long Term Care Community Coalition, told t…