[JoeSixPack1]

I am a fulltime caregiver. 11 1/2 years now. Mom is total toast.

I'm on 60ng of prozac daily. Works better than giving Aricept or Exelon to mom. She's on mega doses of exelon now, but no benefit at all.

I've searched from John Hopkins to local neurologists for something that will help. Total waste of time and money. They've got nothing, nada, zip, zilch to help an alzheimers patient in the late stages.

[Wilhelm Tell]

I am a fulltime caregiver. 11 1/2 years now.

Wow. That must be rough. I hope you have someone to share the burden. What often happens is that one or two family members will do most of the work and everyone else will distance themselves. I know one woman who is taking care of her terminally ill mother. Her siblings have distanced themselves -- the are very rude whenever she asks for anything, which is seldom. What is ironic is that she is the least liked child in this dysfunctional family and yet she is doing all the work. The "good" children who were favored feel like they are entitled to not help at all. People can be cruel.

[AuntB]

"I'm on 60ng of prozac daily"

No one understands what the caregiver goes through until they have to do it. I spent 7 of the last 8 years "providing" for a brain tumor patient...not Alzhiemers, but much the same. As if the patient isn't enough there is that never ending search for treatment that you mentioned. I'm not sure I'll ever recover.