David Cameron is President & CEO of the ALS Society of Canada. Rodney Harris is the Chief Executive Officer of the Motor Neurone Disease Association of Victoria, Australia. They describe their organizations. They respond to points from Episode 3, Jan 26, 2010, ‘Family Caregiving and Lou Gehrig’s Disease’, raised by Colleen Smailes, whose husband died from Lou Gehrig’s disease in 2009, and Melanie York, who was diagnosed with it in 2008. The points include support for family caregivers in assisting family members with the disease in their shift from independence to dependence, from communicatio
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