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My Question is:
Have you had a family member or friend with Alzheimers? How did you deal with it?
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14 comments:
No, I imagine that is a very difficult situation.
I help take care of my grandmother.. and she developed dementia and alzheimers. It is really difficult. Just takes a lot of patience and love.
No. I have been blessed to never have this experience.
No, thankfully I have not.
No, I haven't had experience with that. I have heard it's incredibly challenging to deal with.
My Mom seems to be showing some signs lately; my dad takes care of her.
Liza
A Maui Blog
My grandfather, who I was not very close did. This makes my mother very nervous...she and her siblings are aware that it is genetic. They all give each other "Brain Games" every time they see each other. They sit around and see who can complete their Sadaku first. It's actually a good bonding thing.
My best friends grandpa just died and he had it. She was always upset because he never remembered who she was. I can imagine it's very tough to deal with.
My grandmother had it, It was hard on me for her not to remember me, we were close before that happened!
My father's great aunt was diagnosed with it. I was so young at the time. I just recall being told that she did not remember us and would always think we were people from her distant past. It was very sad.
No, but I worked for a geriatric psychiatrist at the Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA during college. So I purely saw it from the clinical side. How about you?
No...but I bet it's tough.
My mother's Aunt, but they lived in the Caribbean. I did see her in the beginning, but she's passed now....
Fortunately I haven't had a friend or family member with Alzheimer's. I do worry about my dad though, he's 80 years old. I can't even imagine how painful and stressful it would be.
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