Does anyone else also have both parents in their early 70s suffering from dementia (and potentially Alzheimer’s)?
It would be funny if it weren’t so sad and frustrating at times. Add a dollop of inherent stubbornness and tendencies of being perceived as a martyr 😤
@pratik Yes, with you too, Pratik! My mother is in her mid 70s though, and she’s at a home for the demented, because my father couldn’t leave her home when he has to go out, but he visits almost daily. My mother speaks mostly of things from the 50s and 60s now. I live a long way from them, and have my own problems to deal with, so it’s not so easy.
@odd Glad she has your dad. We’ve explored the home option too but there’s cultural resistance that leads to fewer available options in India. But yeah, distance makes it difficult. Wishing you all luck too.
@pratik my dad had a personality change in that age, he became unpleasant to my mother. I once took him to the doctor and happened to see the doctor looking at X-Rays of my fathers brain, I'm definitely not a doctor but my reaction was "oh, oh, that's not good". He died a few months after that, from a fall, and 1-2 years after that I remembered what I had seen and asked for more details. Turned out he had an aggressive type of "brain cancer" that wasn't a tumor but that lived between the regular brain cells. This probably explained the personality changes. So, probably not dementia but still rather unpleasant, especially for my mother (who is perfectly OK ... "brain wise")
