Hi everyone, I am a new member, and just wanted to write a message and maybe gain some advice from those who have experience of dealing with AD.
My Step Dad (SD) (aged 67) has had this condition for circa 2 years, and it was formerly diagnosed about 8 months ago. My brother and I do not live at home its just my mom and SD, but we do speak to them a couple of times a week.
I am not close to either of them, due to past issues. Over the last 4 months he seems to have declined rapidly. I see them both maybe once a year, and saw them last at Xmas, I was shocked at what I saw. He used to be a strong man and physically very fit (worked for the post office for 42 years before retiring), I looked at him and his face was vacant. Conversation was difficult, and I felt uncomfortable.
Saturday just gone my mom called me at 8pm to tell me he had gone missing. I drove over to my parents house, he had walked 2 doors away from his home to buy a newspaper and not gone back. My mom and Uncle searched the surrounding area, and after a 1 hour fruitless search called the Police. The police scrambled a helicoptor, and deployed officers on the ground to look for him. He was eventually found at an old address we lived at 30 years ago, some 4 miles away. He was lost for just over 5 hours. Mom is contacting social services to speak to them for guidance today. I looked at him when the police brought him home Saturday evening, and i felt such saddness to see him so cold and frail, and oblivious to his surroundings. When the police spoke to him, he struggled to string a sentence together.
Mom is stubborn and very proud and had not told me and my brother how bad things were. On Saturday night she told us everyhing, my SD can become aggresive, he starts to put himself away half way though having a wee. He pulls at patterns in the living room carpet, he counts things in his hands when they are empty. He doesnt know who she is half the time. Mom has suffered from poor health many years, and I dont know how much more she can take.
My Step Dad (SD) (aged 67) has had this condition for circa 2 years, and it was formerly diagnosed about 8 months ago. My brother and I do not live at home its just my mom and SD, but we do speak to them a couple of times a week.
I am not close to either of them, due to past issues. Over the last 4 months he seems to have declined rapidly. I see them both maybe once a year, and saw them last at Xmas, I was shocked at what I saw. He used to be a strong man and physically very fit (worked for the post office for 42 years before retiring), I looked at him and his face was vacant. Conversation was difficult, and I felt uncomfortable.
Saturday just gone my mom called me at 8pm to tell me he had gone missing. I drove over to my parents house, he had walked 2 doors away from his home to buy a newspaper and not gone back. My mom and Uncle searched the surrounding area, and after a 1 hour fruitless search called the Police. The police scrambled a helicoptor, and deployed officers on the ground to look for him. He was eventually found at an old address we lived at 30 years ago, some 4 miles away. He was lost for just over 5 hours. Mom is contacting social services to speak to them for guidance today. I looked at him when the police brought him home Saturday evening, and i felt such saddness to see him so cold and frail, and oblivious to his surroundings. When the police spoke to him, he struggled to string a sentence together.
Mom is stubborn and very proud and had not told me and my brother how bad things were. On Saturday night she told us everyhing, my SD can become aggresive, he starts to put himself away half way though having a wee. He pulls at patterns in the living room carpet, he counts things in his hands when they are empty. He doesnt know who she is half the time. Mom has suffered from poor health many years, and I dont know how much more she can take.
