Relationships & Dementia - Help For Alzheimers Families

Live chat with expert: Karen Garner

February 28, 2017 at 5:00pm EST

Join Karen Garner, Lakelyn Hogan and other caregivers to get tips on coping with the many ways dementia can impact your personal relationships.

Coping with dementia-related personality changes
Shifting from spouse to caregiver
Navigating family conflict related to care responsibilities

About the expert

Karen Garner

Alzheimer’s disease expert by experience, Karen Garner, 47, was the caregiver for her husband Jim who passed away from early-onset Alzheimer's disease in April 2016. As the founder of The Garner Foundation to help dementia caregivers, she is passionate about educating doctors, lawmakers and anyone who will listen about Alzheimer’s and the toll it takes on families. She started her blog, www.missingjim.com, to become a face and voice for younger onset Alzheimer’s Disease. She and her two children, Frances, 16 and Bradley, 12, have traveled to Washington D.C. many times to advocate for more research funding and to bring awareness to those that can help facilitate change. Karen lives in Newport News, VA, volunteers at her children’s schools and is also a proud softball, field hockey and baseball mom as well as a coach to Bradley’s basketball team.