My mum died suddenly earlier this year leaving my 90yr old father. It’s since become clear over the last few months that he has serious memory problems that we weren’t really aware of because mum did everything for him and he just hovered around happily in the background. We’ve finally got him assessed and he has mixed altzimers and vascular dementia. For 3 months my sister and I were juggling being with him ( we both live 2hrs away) until we finally managed to talk him into paying for live in care that we’ve arranged through an agency to give us a break while we sort my mums will and work out his finances.
it seems daft to admit that we hadn’t a clue that there was anything majorly wrong with him (in fact we were more worried about mum) so it’s all come as a big shock and really feel dropped in the deep end ( with no clue how to swim or what to do next). It feels like loosing both parents in one go.
it seems daft to admit that we hadn’t a clue that there was anything majorly wrong with him (in fact we were more worried about mum) so it’s all come as a big shock and really feel dropped in the deep end ( with no clue how to swim or what to do next). It feels like loosing both parents in one go.