{"id":11144,"date":"2018-08-09T09:04:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T13:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11144"},"modified":"2018-08-09T09:04:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T13:04:15","slug":"learning-to-live-well-with-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11144","title":{"rendered":"Learning To Live Well With Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Imagine your doctor telling you have Alzheimer\u2019s disease or some other type of dementia. Then, imagine being told, \u201cI\u2019m sorry, there\u2019s nothing we can do. You might want to start getting your affairs in order.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Time and again, people newly diagnosed with these conditions describe feeling subsequently overcome by hopelessness. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/learning-to-live-well-with-dementia\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=65081420&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-88fz9VjA5xL-50ZVqDbopFGIobyTjkEqCmLykrO8Z8FZtldjgZEWApsdozpAORDoIX-KU2S9NyZlkdcaC9VCLjSQC0Qg&amp;_hsmi=65081420\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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