I can't say that I'd be kidding if I would consider this line of work. It sounds like a dream job to me. Also from the Seattle Times here is a personal piece about the writer's grandmother and the effects of alzheimer's disease.

"Alzheimer's was the catalyst that heightened my relationship with my grandmother to maturity and a sense of grace that only came about once her cognition and ability to communicate faded.

"Unencumbered by the limits of words or the desire to explain, my immobile and incoherent grandmother was free to boundlessly love me. It was as if each of those little visits throughout the weeks and months slowly revealed that this is how she'd felt about me my whole life.

"In this way, Grammie gently showed me what it means to be humble, for it has been the most humbling feeling in the world to discover that someone has been in love with me my whole life."