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Twenty-Four Seven: A Podcast About Caregiving

Caring For Ronald Reagan

Published January 28, 2022 at 9:40 AM CST
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Patti Davis with her family in 1967.
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Photograph of then-Governor Ronald Reagan, Ron Reagan Jr., Nancy Reagan, and Patti Davis circa 1967.

Kitty talks with Patti Davis, author of Floating in the Deep End: How Caregivers Can See Beyond Alzheimer's. Patti began taking care of her father, former president Ronald Reagan, when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's after leaving office; she later ran support groups for family caregivers. She tells Kitty about the difficult lessons she learned while caring for a person with Alzheimer's and the spiritual groundings that carried her through it.

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