Skip to content

SUBSCRIBER ONLY

Opinion columnists |
Column: Virginians with cognitive decline rises amid caregiver crisis

The number of medical professionals treating cognitive decline, including Alzheimer's and dementia, is falling at a time that the population is aging and more people than ever face that difficult diagnosis. (Atthapon Raksthaput/Dreamstime)
Atthapon Raksthaput/Dreamstime
The number of medical professionals treating cognitive decline, including Alzheimer’s and dementia, is falling at a time that the population is aging and more people than ever face that difficult diagnosis. (Atthapon Raksthaput/Dreamstime)
Author
UPDATED:

More Virginians are experiencing cognitive decline at a time when the pool of caregivers is drying up, Norfolk writer Lisa Suhay argues in a guest column.

Subscribe to continue reading this article.

Already subscribed? To login in, click here.

Originally Published: