ALS Caregiver Learning Labs: Helping Ease Family Burdens

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a “fatal neurodegenerative disease that affects motor neurons leading to the loss of voluntary muscle function” (de Wit et al., 2019, p. 195). The typical onset of ALS occurs between the ages of 40 and 70 years and affects about 6,000 new individuals in the United States each year (ALS Association, 2019). On average, a person with ALS lives 2 to 5 years after being diagnosed. However, 10% of the population survives