Dementia is not a new term in medical history; it has been prevalent in adults for ages. While Alzheimer’s and dementia both trigger memory loss, there are other factors also which contribute to the health condition. As of today,...
Imagine if you get up one day and have no recollection of what you did the day before. As scary as it sounds, Dementia is one such condition. They lose the faculty of thought and communication. Although it’s not...
Dad’s gone into his shell. He’d simply stopped thinking. To get him back I decided to go back to what he was good at. Math. Actually he was a wizard with numbers. You gave him a number and some...
We all know how stubborn elderly parents can get, especially when it comes to taking the advice of their ‘kids’. It is futile to argue with them because “parents are always right”, correct? Another factor that makes them stubborn...
I’m going through a roller coaster. Not been sleeping well… too many memories, too many emotions of Mum bubbling inside me. She’s totally lost in her own world now…it went downhill so quickly and so bewilderingly fast for five...
For us, every new day is the dawn of new hope, new possibilities. Old age, however, is a different ballgame altogether. Old age sometimes brings with it dementia. People no longer recognise their home environment. Though there are ways...