Kirk Constable
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My father-in-law will be 74 in a few months. For the past couple years he's had a nerve related problem with his legs and back, such that he can't stand or walk for more than a few minutes before he loses control of his legs and has to sit and regroup. Also has some breathing issues that pretty well eliminated any physically taxing activities several years back. His hearing has gotten very bad, and his hands and head shake noticeably. Recently, he seems to be confused frequently... which at first I attributed to the hearing issue... but now we think it may be more than that. There are times when he simply doesn't know things that we know he knows... and no amount of explaining helps. His personality has always been on the verge of being irritating, but now he has periods of downright hatefullness towards the people close to him, oftentimes for no good reason, and usually with no forewarning. LOML and I have talked with her mother, and she says we really don't know the half of it.
We've began to talk about it may be time to start 'taking things away' from him... and he's not gonna like that even a tiny bit. Can anybody recommend a good book on dealing with what looks like it might be Alzheimer's?
We've began to talk about it may be time to start 'taking things away' from him... and he's not gonna like that even a tiny bit. Can anybody recommend a good book on dealing with what looks like it might be Alzheimer's?