The objective of this article was to describe the results of an educational intervention for family caregivers of persons in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. A total of 58 family caregivers participated in this intervention, which consisted of five weekly educational sessions about the disease and various aspects of caregiving. Measures of knowledge about Alzheimer's disease, reactions to patients'impairments, and levels of depression at pretest, posttest, and follow-up at 9 months posttest were analyzed. The results showed that modest benefits were derived by participants at the three points in time, with knowledge about the disease improving significantly, reactions to patients' impairments improving slightly, and level of depression increasing slightly. This preliminary study reveals that the educational intervention has merit for family caregivers coping with the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, but new or different outcome measures could possibly better assess its impact.This study grew out of a concern that family members caring for relatives in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD) have few educational and supportive services to address their needs at this particular stage of the disease. The Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center in Chicago has evaluated an average of 350 persons with dementia annually for more than 10 years. At first, the majority of new patients evaluated in the clinic were in the middle and late 531