Caring for Alzheimer’s: How Three Couples Cope

Caregivers talk about the physical and emotional toll as the disease progresses.


“Have you childproofed the house yet? Take all the knobs off the stove.”

The advice wasn’t from a nervous new parent, but from Bill Clinton, a 74-year-old who takes care of his wife who has Alzheimer’s disease. Mr. Clinton was sitting at a table at the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Memory Center with a dozen other caregivers,...