By Jenny Higgons • The Journal News • March 29, 2009
Julie Delaney of Congers has long juggled two lives: one as a caseworker-advocate at Jewish Family Services and another as a caregiver to her parents, Julius, 90, and Rose Ferlauto, who recently died after suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
Delaney cared for her parents in their Suffern home, spending all day Tuesday plus three afternoons weekly with them. Meanwhile, the single mother raised Shane, now 19.
When Shane was younger, she says, he would often complain, "You're always with grandma or grandpa."
"That was Shane's perception," Delaney says.
"When my parents came on the scene, he felt emotionally displaced."
Mary Beth Berenguer of Garnerville can relate.
Berenguer lives with her husband, Felix, and her daughter, Alexa, who will soon be 11. Her parents live in separate nursing centers in Rockland. Her father, 81, has had Alzheimer's for three years; her mother, 77, has difficulty walking and early-stage Parkinson's disease.....
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