We will do whatever is within our powers to try and get rid of this disease for all of our friends and family...[s]o that our friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers will never have to know what it's like to be so young without a mom to go to for advice or a simple hug.

Julie Foglesong

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You could already tell a week after our wedding...it took a lot out of her.

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She was a great mother and a great grandmother.

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[I] still had many years that I would have loved to spend with my mom...Our kids have never had the chance to know her nor did she ever get to hold and love them.

— Julie Foglesong

What we've often observed in our clinic is that as the disease progresses, the individual with the disease is less aware and the focus really shifts to the caregiver because the demands in caring for that person become so great that they need help.