Sorry to hear that - he's obviously further along than my dad, but he's literally just turned 80 so I suppose that's no surprise.Yes, my father-in-law. He's 92, but he keeps climbing up on the roof to check the tiles. He gets up in the middle of the night to make himself a meal out of dog food. He turns all the taps on in the middle of the night and keeps flooding out his home. Many, many more.
yes, but he's 92. My friend's parents have dementia. The nurses turned up to take samples, but they wouldn't let them in. They left the containers and said they'd pick them up the next day. When they went round the next day, my friend's father was adamant that they hadn't called the day before and he didn't have any specimen jars at all.Sorry to hear that - he's obviously further along than my dad, but he's literally just turned 80 so I suppose that's no surprise.
I know; it was my poor english. Sorry.Sorry, I meant my dad's just turned 80.
really sorry to hear all this, my wife is an Occupational Therapist with the EMI Reablement Team here in Wales and sees this every day. It's daunting and can understand your difficulties.Sorry, I meant my dad's just turned 80.
Ouch!My brother's just found a handwritten note accusing us of 'removing' the car, which stops him seeing his special friends (there aren't any), running his business (it was wound up more than a decade ago) and that he's just waiting to die as he hasn't got a car (I fear that this may actually be true). It ends with a single capitalised word meaning illegitimate in the plural.
Can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to seeing him next...
I think what you say about deficiencies in diet and lifestyle has a lot to do with this horrible condition.When dad got his diagnosis, I read that there seemed to be a tentative link between vitamin b12 and lower incidence of dementia - just read in Science Focus about the results of a three-year study using (obvs) double-blind conditions, and after three years there was an easily-measured difference between placebo and non-placebo groups. I started on multivitamins after I first read about it, and given that they cost peanuts (and that my diet, whilst good, is pretty narrow) I'm glad I did. Might be worth considering if you don't, as we are all not exactly in the first flush of youth.
(Usual caveats about making sure you exercise, use your brain, keep socially-active, have a decent diet etc. I take the view that anything which lengthens the odds of me ending up like my dad is worth doing. I know none of this gives me any sort of guarantee...)