Goodbye again: What it's like to lose both parents to Alzheimer's

When both my parents were diagnosed with a devastating disease, I had to learn, and re-learn, how to let them go

Losing one parent to Alzheimer's disease is hard enough.
(Image credit: SEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP/Getty Images)

Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye.

You've heard it. Of course you have. Alzheimer's disease is the long goodbye. The body is present but the mind is gone.

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Shelley Moench-Kelly

Shelley Moench-Kelly is a freelance writer and editor from Vermont via Los Angeles and Tokyo. Her freelance clients include Google, L'Oreal Paris, and MedEsthetics magazine.