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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