Middle age and Alzheimer’s.
Hi I’m Phil and my wife Jo was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s July of this year at the ripe old age of 52 Years old. This seems to explain why over the past four years she has been unable to carry out the functions of work and they had been getting progressively worse. My wife was in the banking industry, financial planner, mortgage advisor, private banking manager etc. The banking industry have a lovely way of threating you with disciplinary action for underperformance knowing full well that the a question on all banking role applications is “Have you ever been on disciplinary?” and if the answers yes you’ll be highly unlikely to make it past this stage.
So here we are at 52 years old and diagnoses of Alzheimer’s, so what next. The local memory clinic was great with home visits but there involvement post diagnoses were diminishing. Luckily the Alzheimer’s society was there and wow support, encouragement and enthusiasm to help, inform and guide us. The CRISP programme luckily was a couple of months after diagnosis and what an invaluable learning curve that’s was,
Post diagnosis we were left trying to find out was financial support was available, as you can imaging, my wife is 52 and I’m 46 so still 18 years of mortgage payments and the borrowing built up whilst we were trying to find employment for 3 to 4 years for my wife pre diagnosis. My wife had around seven jobs within this time frame but they lasted from 2 weeks to 2 months before the threat of disciplinary was on the table. The master plan was once my wife was working the debt could be repaid over time. Well my wife will not work again and ouch there’s the plan blown out the water, what now!
So on top of the Alzheimer’s diagnoses was the financial affairs, not to mention the introduction of PIP to replace the DLA now there’s another saga.
Ok back to the main theme now I have got that of my chest, and believe me I needed to, Alzheimer’s and Middle age people. The vast majority of external functions and support for Dementia is geared towards the 60-90 age group for obvious reasons. As much as my wife’s has tried to involve herself with “signing for the brain” etc. etc. the age gap was to vast for her to actually generate any enthusiasm to continue
What about us younger people. Early 50’s Dementia and Late forties Carer. Please if anyone has any help, direction or even just a post to say hi would love the communication if nothing else.
Yours Phil and Jo from South Wiltshire – empathy yes, sympathy no thank you
Just for you Julia, finally built up enough umph to post
Hi I’m Phil and my wife Jo was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s July of this year at the ripe old age of 52 Years old. This seems to explain why over the past four years she has been unable to carry out the functions of work and they had been getting progressively worse. My wife was in the banking industry, financial planner, mortgage advisor, private banking manager etc. The banking industry have a lovely way of threating you with disciplinary action for underperformance knowing full well that the a question on all banking role applications is “Have you ever been on disciplinary?” and if the answers yes you’ll be highly unlikely to make it past this stage.
So here we are at 52 years old and diagnoses of Alzheimer’s, so what next. The local memory clinic was great with home visits but there involvement post diagnoses were diminishing. Luckily the Alzheimer’s society was there and wow support, encouragement and enthusiasm to help, inform and guide us. The CRISP programme luckily was a couple of months after diagnosis and what an invaluable learning curve that’s was,
Post diagnosis we were left trying to find out was financial support was available, as you can imaging, my wife is 52 and I’m 46 so still 18 years of mortgage payments and the borrowing built up whilst we were trying to find employment for 3 to 4 years for my wife pre diagnosis. My wife had around seven jobs within this time frame but they lasted from 2 weeks to 2 months before the threat of disciplinary was on the table. The master plan was once my wife was working the debt could be repaid over time. Well my wife will not work again and ouch there’s the plan blown out the water, what now!
So on top of the Alzheimer’s diagnoses was the financial affairs, not to mention the introduction of PIP to replace the DLA now there’s another saga.
Ok back to the main theme now I have got that of my chest, and believe me I needed to, Alzheimer’s and Middle age people. The vast majority of external functions and support for Dementia is geared towards the 60-90 age group for obvious reasons. As much as my wife’s has tried to involve herself with “signing for the brain” etc. etc. the age gap was to vast for her to actually generate any enthusiasm to continue
What about us younger people. Early 50’s Dementia and Late forties Carer. Please if anyone has any help, direction or even just a post to say hi would love the communication if nothing else.
Yours Phil and Jo from South Wiltshire – empathy yes, sympathy no thank you
Just for you Julia, finally built up enough umph to post
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a mountain of support, empathy, total understanding here and a giggle now and again or just a chat about nothing in particular. 
