Sandra Day O’Connor, our first female Supreme Court Justice has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.  She was the caregiver to her husband for years, who lived with Alzheimer’s.  If anyone understood the disease process, she did.  She’s become an example for me to honor in my trainings as she experienced what it was like to place her husband in memory care assisted living.  Understanding that her husband no longer recognized her and that as a human being still had the need for human connection and intimacy, she accepted his development of a relationship with another woman resident.  As Justice O’Connor