What are the rewards of caregiving for someone with Alzheimer's?

Before you become too overwhelmed by the idea of being a caregiver, with all that it entails, let’s talk about the rewards of caregiving. There are in fact surprisingly many. In talking about the possible rewards, it may well be that those that I mention first will be the least important to you, and those mentioned later the most important one, or vice versa.

You will be able to sort them out, so here goes, in no particular order. A. What you are doing is an act of love, or of “love made work.”

Acts of love reward the person giving love at least as much as the person receiving it. B. What you are doing is literally life-saving to the person with Alzheimer’s disease.

C. You will be challenged like you have never been challenged before, and you will rise to the challenge time and again. You will see yourself grow by leaps and bounds.

D. Your acts of caregiving will tame this disease and lessen its force on your loved one, allowing them to still be more like themselves, in their actions, in their personality and in their communications with you. E.

As a caregiver, you will meet many other courageous caregivers, and you may form new friendships that will last you the rest of your life. F. You will be participating in one of the most heroic battles that science has ever fought with a disease, and someday you may be celebrating, with many others “a world without Alzheimer’s.”

To be sure, caregiving for someone with Alzheimer’s disease is one of the hardest jobs anyone will ever face. Yet caregiving has to be done—by someone. What I have tried to do in these few remarks is to tell you that if you have chosen to take on this challenge, however much you give to this job, you will be amply and multiply rewarded.

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