Caregiving and Ambiguous Grief

It’s a difficult challenge to care for someone who is here, but not here—here physically, but gone mentally and psychologically. You feel alone, and in some ways, you are. For many caregivers, it’s as if there’s a stranger in the house.  Many report its not the illness itself that is stressful, it’s the ambiguity and roller coaster of being absence and presence at the same time.