Caregiver guidance delays nursing-home stays for Alzheimer patients
14th Nov 2006, 10:14 GMT
Counseling people who are caring for a husband or wife with Alzheimer's disease can delay by an average of one-and-a-half years their need to put their spouse in a nursing home, a long-term study has found.
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