The Health Care Promises We Cannot Keep

(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News)

It was a promise Matt Perrin wasn’t able to keep.

“I’ll never take away your independence,” he’d told his mother, Rosemary, then 71, who lived alone on Cape Cod, Mass., in a much-loved cottage.

That was before Rosemary started calling Perrin and his brother, confused and disoriented, when she was out driving. Her Alzheimer’s disease was progressing.

Worried about the potential for a dangerous accident, Perrin took away his mother’s car keys, then got rid of her car. She was furious.  Continue reading article here…

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