How my family battled with my father’s Alzheimer’s
If there is one thing that I regret to this present day; it was my failure to recognize the signs of early Alzheimer’s. It wasn’t until, one morning he took my brother’s 10-year-old son to the market and came back without him that I began to put the pieces together.
As anyone with a loved one with Alzheimer’s will have experienced, Alzheimer’s affects not just an individual but the entire family as well. For with the diagnosis come the novel challenges of dealing with progressive memory loss, changes in the personality and the huge, sometimes dramatic changes in the family dynamics.
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