Making an Exit: A Mother-Daughter Drama with Alzheimer's, Machine Tools, and Laughter
By: Source: AARP.org Date Posted: 2005-03-08 00:00:00-05:00
As a child Elinor Fuchs had little contact with her mother, who had left Fuchs to be raised by grandparents while she launched a new career across the country. In a new book, Making an Exit, Elinor Fuchs describes how their previously distant relationship changed dramatically when her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and Fuchs became her mother's caretaker. Fuchs joins host Mike Cuthbert to talk about an uncommon story of discovery, devotion-and even laughter- in the face of a debilitating disease.
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