Does anyone have any interesting stories about their family members developing Alzheimer’s disease?
What is your story? How did you find out that your loved one has Alzheimer’s diseas? How does it affect your family emotionally, physically, and mentally? The more details, the better.
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My Papa Got Alztimers And Grabbed A Gun And Thought He Was In The War Again And Shot Some Dude In The Butt
I think you need to approach this question with more sensitivity… You ask it as though you’re asking for fishing stories or something, and it isn’t a topic that most people who have experience in take lightly. It’s a heartbreaking disease and “The more details, the better” makes you sound like a shark.
I would have been willing to tell you my story if I hadn’t felt like you didn’t care one bit about peoples feelings.
Well, nobody in my immediate family has it, but I read in a respectable scientific magazine that constant learning and intellectual activity like puzzle solving tends to ward it off. This ties in with my own observations, for what that’s worth. All the people I’ve known who’ve had it stopped learning the day they left school, and in the rural backwater where we live it seems to be very much more common than in the cities.By way of illustration, here in NZ we adopted decimal currency in 1967 and the metric system in the early 1970s, but it’s common around here to meet oldies who only use the old units. And most folk around here over the age of 40 never use the names of countries which came into existence since 1989 like Slovakia, and they talk about East Germany and Rhodesia as if these countries still exist.