Program Landing

Cris Abrams talks about her experience as a daughter with a mother who had Alzheimer's disease. As her mother’s condition worsened, Cris made the difficult decision to place her mother in a nursing facility. As the end of her life approached, Cris turned to hospice care for her mother, who was able to receive that care from a hospice team at the facility. Ms. Abrams describes the difficult journey of grieving someone who had Alzheimer’s disease; “…even though that person [who you loved] had Alzheimer’s and was no longer the person you knew,” she reminds us, “it was still your mother.” Many people are unaware that Alzheimer's disease and dementia patients account for approximately 11 percent of all hospice patients, and that hospice care can take place anywhere that a patient calls “home.”