Hey, I got news for you. You're getting older and so are your parents. And it can be complicated.

It can be messy. It can be upsetting. Today we're going to share with you a little bit of how

that is developing, I guess you could say. Yeah, because we had a podcast a few months

ago. So this is kind of an update and some more things that we've learned.

We're in the car. Thanks for going for a ride with us like literally and figuratively.

Dealing with aging parents brings on a very complex set of emotions. I think it's one of the

hardest things you're ever going to have to do, especially managing, I think, a relationship

where one of your parents is suffering from debilitating slow progressing or maybe fast

progressing or maybe unpredictably progressing disease like Parkinson's or Alzheimer's or dementia,

any number of diseases. Our specific scenario at the moment is Brett's father has Alzheimer's.

And we did a previous episode. We'll link to it in the show notes, because I think that might be

a helpful one to start with if you're experiencing this. And in any event, I just want to acknowledge

every one of you who has to face this. And if you have a parent alive, you may likely have to

face this. And it's difficult. It's really hard. There's so many things you have to cope with

because it's not just this person going through a disease. It's so much more complex. And in

that there's a history, there's a history that you have with that parent. There's a personality

change in our situation. Again, we're going to speak a lot about dementia and Alzheimer's. But

I'm just going to speak a little bit bread and I'm going to turn it over to you if you don't mind.

Because I don't want to say I'm an outsider, but like it's Brett's father. And so what I've noticed,

first of all, when I came into the family, like his father is the definition of patriarch.

Like he was a patriarch for this county. He's a patriarch for thousands of boys and even families

that came under his wing really. Like he's the most protective, caring, also at times controlling

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