Being a Primary Caregiver for a relative with Alzheimer’s disease – The Long Goodbye I was a Caregiver for 12 1/2 long years. There you go, straight off the bat as they say, I write this article (the first in a series) in my role as a Primary Caregiver first and author second. I was the primary caregiver for my elderly mother who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease. It is a desperately cruel disease (most are, I know) in that it robs people (by and large) of their dignity and their independence at a stage in life when they need it […]