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🗓️ 7 November 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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0:26.6 | dot com slash melm. Alzheimer's is the most common type of dementia and it can be a devastating disease. |
0:40.0 | Those of you who've seen a loved one struggle with Alzheimer's likely know all too well what I'm talking about. |
0:46.0 | Andrea Gillies took care of her mother-in-law, Nancy, and explained to the Guardian how much it affected her. |
0:52.0 | Every day, Nancy would wake up to find |
0:54.4 | that she'd aged 50 years, that she didn't recognize herself in the mirror, and |
0:58.0 | that she had no idea where she was or who she was with. Complete strangers walked into Nancy's room, handing her |
1:05.0 | clothing she'd never seen, asking how she was and if she wanted a walk. |
1:08.6 | Distinguishing between reality and fantasy was impossible for Nancy. |
1:13.8 | It was, as Andrea put it, like science fiction. |
1:17.4 | It's difficult to know what to do in this situation. |
1:20.3 | Do you visit them, spend time with them, even though maybe it makes no difference? |
1:24.4 | What if they're hostile or even aggressive? |
1:26.7 | Nancy would slap her granddaughters, curse at them, and be unable to use the bathroom properly or even bathe. She was unrecognizable, no longer confused, but miserable, fearful, and angry. And it's not Nancy's fault. No one's fault for this happening. And she's far from the only one that's felt this way. |
1:45.0 | There's no shortage of stories online about the effects of dementia, the general term for a decline in memory, reasoning, and thinking skills, and Alzheimer's the specific term for the brain disease itself. |
1:57.0 | While Alzheimer's can affect people differently, it's typically a very difficult road. |
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