"...live for Today rather than always planning for tomorrow"

Trading places

For the last two weeks Nightly News has been bringing you some very personal stories about what we all will face at some point in our lifetime: helping our loved ones as they grow older.

Unfortunately, too many family and friends tend to not want to deal with it, or don't know how to, and therefore they drop off the radar at a time when they're needed most.

What I worry about most now is the genetics of Early Onset. There is a very clear link that if one parent gets it early that future generations will also suffer with it. I hope and pray all the groundbreaking research being done now to prevent or even find a cure for Alzheimer's is successful.

On a final note, this has made me realize how important it is to live for today rather than always planning for our tomorrows.

Also from her iVillage blog:

About [her]

Natalie Morales joined Today as a National Correspondent in February 2006. She also co-anchors for the program and fills in regularly at the news desk. Prior to joining Today, she was an anchor and correspondent at MSNBC, covering major breaking news stories including Hurricane Katrina and the recovery efforts, the tsunami disaster, the death of Pope John Paul II, the battle for the White House in 2004, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. She began her on-air career as a reporter for News 12 - The Bronx, and spent three years as morning co-anchor at NBC's WVIT in Hartford, Connecticut. Morales, who speaks Spanish and Portuguese, was born in Taiwan and spent much of the first 18 years of her life living overseas in Panama, Brazil and Spain as an Air Force "brat." Hispanic Magazine named her one of the "Top Hispanics to Watch" in 2005. She currently lives in New Jersey with her husband and son.