Study: Family members caring for dementia patients in Arkansas often suffer poor health, too

A caregiver sits with an Alzheimer's disease patient Thursday, March 1, 2012, while listening to a reading from Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Fayetteville. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/ANDY SHUPE)
A caregiver sits with an Alzheimer's disease patient Thursday, March 1, 2012, while listening to a reading from Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Fayetteville. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/ANDY SHUPE)


An Arkansan with Alzheimer's disease is more likely to be cared for by a family member or friend with their own chronic health problems than the resident of any other state except Pennsylvania, according to figures collected by the Alzheimer's Association, a national nonprofit group based in Chicago.

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