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Mom and her teens care for dad with early onset Alzheimer's
Photo credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams Jr. | Karen Henley tries to cajole her husband, Mike, into responding to her. The late stages of Alzheimer's disease have robbed Mike of much of his ability to interact with his family. (Dec. 7, 2007)
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It's only 7 a.m., and worry already hangs over Karen Henley's head. Her sinuses have been acting up, and she fears she may be coming down with a cold. As with all of her worries, this one has her husband, Mike, at its core.
"It's bad enough when they're sick," Karen says of her two children, Courtney, 16, and Brandon, 14. "I try to keep them away from him....
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