Alzheimers / Dementia

Very sorry to hear this, parachute. You posted this at 3.00 am, you'll probably get more of a response later as chit-chatters get up

I have lost two family members to Dementia. One being my beloved mother-in-law. She was 80 and had had a good life until the disease took hold about 2 years before her death. It was devastating nonetheless.

The other family member who died was diagnosed in their mid fifties and suffered from the disease for 6 years until they died.

At the moment I am in close contact, through my job, with someone who has frontal lobe dementia. He is early forties and the disease is advancing rapidly.

A cruel disease, and it is heartbreaking to see someone you love suffer from it.

Some people, if diagnosed early enough and depending on the type of dementia, can live for many years with a good quality of life.

Here's a useful link 

.http://forum.alzheimers.org.uk/forum.php

Prunella Scales is suffering from dementia at the moment. She is still very sprightly and enjoying life.
There was a series on recently with Prunella and her husband, Timothy West, cruising the inland waterways on a narrowboat. She did all the locks

She is amazing for someone her age, with or without dementia. Fitter than a lot of people in their 20s.

Here's a useful link, tho' I expect you've already visited this site. 

.http://forum.alzheimers.org.uk/forum.php

Best wishes to you, Parachute.

I gave you the link twice

My mother died at the age of 82, having suffered from dementia for 4 years. My poor Dad tried to look after her, and battled for 2 years, trying to understand why the woman he had been married to for 53 years beat him, swore at him and didn't know who he was !
She ended  up in a number of care homes, some of which were unbelievably appalling. Thank God she had no realisation of where she was or how she looked. A once proud woman had all her dignity stripped from her.

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I have said to my children , if  I ever start to go the same way - put a pillow over my head !