Alzheimer’s Disease (Part 1 of 2)
A brief look at what caregivers go through when dealing with Alzheimer’s disease! Made by Ryan Pfleger at the Brooks Institute of Photography. www.ryanpfleger.com for more info & better quality
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Thank you all for your kind words… Dojie is in a nursing home in Palm Springs and has progressed quite a bit in the disease :( Things are hard… Life is so precious… it’s horrible to loose someone twice! Hopefully with research this disease will one day be cured!
thank you for posting,,,i just lost my wife of 48 yrs to this horrible disease, 09/13/2009. we have 22 grand , 14 great grand, we as care givers need a support groupe, to share how the others are doing and even the different stages they are going thru. but i visit my baby every night on you tube, she had a good day , so if you are having a bad one.. this video will make you smile and laugh out loud. enjoy
Its humane to put an animal down when their quality of life is reduced to something like this, yet we prolong agony for humans. Right to live? What about right to die?
me and my mom are living with my grandma now she has this and as bad as i feel for her it can be extremely irritating she has been stubborn for her whole life its her personality she wont believe somethings wrong with her even though shes been diagnosed with it many times she hides all of are clothes shes hidden about 200$ worth of cloths in the past year she hides every object she can find and forgets about then denies she ever did it she bleached tons of cloth too and blames it on us
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Update my mom for now is in assisted living in Palm Springs. I completely remodeled her condo and am going to have to sell it to continue to pay for her care. I am hoping it will sell times are tough as we all know. Thank you all for your kind words. Maggie Dojie’s girl
I have so much respect for you.
My mother and I are taking care of my grandmother.
We have been doing so since 1998. The rest of the family basically avoids the situation because it is unpleasant for them. You are a very strong, generous and devoted woman and a wonderful daughter. I feel your pain completely.
My best friend was just diagnosed with Alzheimers and believe me! This disease is horrible and affects all loved ones!
do you know brent huffman? he works at the brooks institute.
if so tell him nadav says hi.
I honestly don’t know if I could deal with an alzheimers patient. It would freak me out.
Hence why I will never have children.
1. You couldn’t have yourself euthenized in the U.S. because it’s against the law for any doctor to help you out with that.
2. If it was legal, you still couldn’t do it because you wouldn’t be legally sane enough to make your own decisions.
> I would have myself euthanized before I got to the point
No, you wouldn’t, because if you’re not at the point yet, you’d naturally put it off. And when the point arrives you wouldn’t have a clue that you ever said that. You might as well do now it now in case it happens tomorrow…
It seems to me a regression back to a infant-like state and the children return the favor of parenting their parents. I would have myself euthanized before I got to the point where my mere existence was ruining my adult children’s lives.
I’m a caregiver for my mom who has the same problem.
I know every thing you feel but i cant leave the house.
The best thing i do is live the music on the whole day straight music from the 60′s
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What happened that made the doctor not want to see her? That’s disgraceful…that doctor should be struck off. Doctors are supposed to care.
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Hope your gran is okay.
I am profoundly sad to read the stories of the families.
Its hard to let go. My mom was afflicted/developed Alzheimer’s back in late 80s. Her zest for life kept her going nearly 20 years in the nursing home. Her sons hated it and would not visit her because they said it was not their mom. (these guys were 50 year old men and still had fantasies about their mom being beautiful – on the outside?)
Hello, I’m the sister of the gal right below me on this post… Boy can we relate to you. It’s so hard, not only do you see your loved one slipping away into this horror, but your family members go through so many changes, panic, stress, stress, stress and oh the sadness. I miss her so much.
My own mother was showing signs of Alzheimers over 6 years ago. She was then diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. After 1 treatment of chemo her alzheimers took over. Her illness has changed everyone in our family. It has
changed my life. This past few years my only sanity it seems is working with writing songs about memory loss. God bless that a cure is found for alzheimers disease. Bless your hearts. If you need a friend, Carol Sue
just like she cared for you when you were a toddler, remember how many times you made her pull her hairs? and she brought you up to be the caring and good hearted person you are now… that’s why you are there taking care of her. God bless you all.
excellent video!! It’s hard for those not trained, as all family members are not, go thru this. I’ve been trained, I take care of people who have this illness. Depression is one of the stages of this illness. One of many, sad to say.
thanks for posting this i have been taking care of my grandpop who has alzheimers for quite sometime i moved 600 miles to tkae care of him cause my mother couldnt handle it alone
I care for my parent with Alzherimer’s…. I’m glad you posted this film because I see so much of the same things in my parent as in hers.
thank you