Abandoned in Plain Sight: The Loneliness Epidemic Among Dementia Caregivers

Dementia caregiving doesn’t just isolate—it exiles. What begins in love and loyalty often ends in silence, as friends and family quietly withdraw. The caregiver becomes a social ghost, avoided not out of malice, but out of fear—because long-term suffering, in our culture, is treated like something contagious.

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