APRIL 9, 2012
ALZHEIMER'S AND CAREGIVING
The Alzheimer's Caregiver: Angels Among Us
My father-in-law, Lester Potts, was a proud member of the Lions’ Club, a men’s community service organization similar to Rotary or Kiwanis.
Until he moved into an Alzheimer’s assisted living unit, he had perfect attendance at their meetings for over 42 years.
During the last several years of those 42, advancing Alzheimer’s disease made it unsafe for him to drive. However, his fellow Lions, knowing how important the club was to my father-in law, offered to take him to the meetings and bring him home.
This sounds like a very small kindness, but what they did was of tremendous value to Lester and the family. You see, Lester was a wanderer, so during the meetings, his