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Alzheimer's patients' spouses: test of love and loyalty

Gloria Richmond tried to do it all herself. Even though the signs of Alzheimer's in her husband David, 70, became more and more apparent, she wanted to take care of him at home in Holbrook. But when he drove their car the wrong way down the Sunrise Highway service road and crashed into a light pole, Gloria realized she needed to place David in a nursing home.

Even after he was admitted to...

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