My friend Ashley was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in May 2024

Bretrick

Bretrick

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Ashley has had a bad fall and broke his hip and femur on Saturday.
Surgery was delayed until today. A 3 hour operation and he is in recovery so doped up he knows nothing.
This was his 4th hip replacement and there is no knowing how he will handle this mentally.
For the past year he has been very down and in a lot of pain with other issues.
His wife, though stoic, is starting to have health issues and has been his carer since his diagnosis in May of 2024.
 
Bretrick said:
Ashley has had a bad fall and broke his hip and femur on Saturday.
Surgery was delayed until today. A 3 hour operation and he is in recovery so doped up he knows nothing.
This was his 4th hip replacement and there is no knowing how he will handle this mentally.
For the past year he has been very down and in a lot of pain with other issues.
His wife, though stoic, is starting to have health issues and has been his carer since his diagnosis in May of 2024.
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this is just about everyone's nightmare... for one or both to get Dementia.. and or one to have to be the carer for the other, when they're in their senior years when it's difficult enough looking after ourselves... as we age..

Just a horrendous situation.. and the poor guy won't have a clue what's happening to him, and his wife will be doubtless beside herself with worry about him.... so awful....

How old is your friend, Bret ?
 
hollydolly said:
this is just about everyone's nightmare... for one or both to get Dementia.. and or one to have to be the carer for the other, when they're in their senior years when it's difficult enough looking after ourselves... as we age..

Just a horrendous situation.. and the poor guy won't have a clue what's happening to him, and his wife will be doubtless beside herself with worry about him.... so awful....

How old is your friend, Bret ?
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Ashley is 79, his wife, 75?
There are going to be hard/sad times ahead. They have two daughters who help out as much as they can, but their lives must go on as well.
 
Bretrick said:
I have no idea if they have been tested. I might ask Gail, (wife) down some time, but that would be well down the track.
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this is the problem with Dementia.. .... there's a 50/50 chance the gene gets passsed to the offspirng.. and sometimes one child will have it and the others won't, and many people who have parents particulalarly parents who got Young Onset Dementia... get themselves tested so they know what is to come, and they can make preperations for that.. well in advance

In the UK... an astonishing 1 in 11 people over the age of 65, has Dementia
 
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