Parents with dementia, how dealing with that has gone.

[Gem99ultra]

You can't be a smoker, or ingest any nicotine product and imagine it doesn't harm you.

So very true! I've smoked for 70+ years and I am very sure it'll kill me in the end.

(On the offensive side however, at 84 I'm still very active maintaining 15 acres of pine trees, 2 acres of 'lawn', and all home & vehicle maintenance tasks.) Most likely if I did avoid smoking and nicotine, I'd live to 100. Life's a crap-shoot any way you look at it.

 

[ning]

My dad passed from dementia two years ago. My mom's sister has it bad right now, but she is the first person on mom's side of the family to get it.
My mom seems to be acting like my dad did in his early stage of getting it. I think that she has it, but her doctors haven't confirmed it.

My doctor said that there is no evidence that it's hereditary. She suggested that if I'm worried, to do puzzles, exercise and lose weight. The healthier that I am, the better the odds that I don't get it.

More and more evidence points to high blood pressure directly increasing dementia.
If you're the slightest bit high bp these days they will medicate you down and it's very likely worth it!

 

[ArlyA]

If you have experience of dealing with dementia, please post. I hope this thread will be of help to the folks who are now, of will be in the future.