Re: Dementia ....
My dad's in early stages, but refuses to believe he has difficulties. He thinks he's great. I've seen him go downhill over the last year or so. Thank goodness my mum's there to look after him. I make sure he attends all his health checks. He gets annoyed as he doesn't know why he has to get them in the first place. I took him for a brain scan and he thought he was going for an x-ray of his knee!! It's a sad disease of the mind . If they are pleasantly confused then that makes a difference. It's if they are tormented and demented - that is just awful. We're fortunate in that he is pleasantly confused for now.Re: Dementia ....
This is a very cruel illness which takes away the very essence of the person that we knew. A very good friend is suffering from this, and combined with his Parkinsons it has left him virtually as helpless as a child and the man we knew is no longer recogniseable.Re: Dementia ....
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I went through the same with my stepfather, his personality changed, he hated everyone apart from my mum but that could change from day to day.Re: Dementia ....
Here on the Isle of Wight, Bear Grylls mother, Lady Sally Grylls was in hospital and worried about the problems the nurses had with patients with dementia. See this from the Island paper.
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