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Alzheimer's patients describe degrading process to get care
By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10
Tags: elderly 
Haaretz.com/Channel 10 news roundup for June 10, 2008.

Michael Shani has been suffering from Alzheimer's disease for the last three years, and 74-year-old Esther Rotenberg the last four. Both are undoubtedly in need of a full-time caregiver.

But the National Insurance Institute, which approves state-funded assistance, forces many Alzheimer's patients to jump through hoops to secure the care they need.


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any patients in Israel opt to pay caretakers out of their own pockets. But the numbers suggest multitudes of elderly citizens who can't fund their own assistance and as a result, suffer alone.


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      1.   I am sure there is a degrading process over there but 13:17  |  S 11/06/08
      2.   A terrible disease 15:03  |  Avrum 11/06/08
      3.   OLMERT AND CABINET HAVE IT AND ARE PAID!!. 15:18  |  petra 11/06/08
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