Hi Annie My father is suffering from both vascular dementia and alzheimers, in pretty equal doses. A scan of his brain shows huge dark areas, holes where decay has eaten the brain away over the years. There is some medicine now for alzheimers but all they can do is slow down the onset, not repair any of the damage.
Physically my dad is fine, just mentally he's collapsing. On top of this he has undiagnosed mental health problems. Every case is different. They keep telling us we're all living longer, and this justifies increasing the pension age etc and other austerity measures. Well, it's not much of a life like that, not sure if i want this for myself, though I can see what's coming now! My dad knows he's got problems with his brain, he's aware of the deterioration. I'm not sure how he can accept it, maybe there's a way, it would be great if he could. I think you're right - there's no way out of this. dave On 10 August 2014 12:21, Annie Abrahams <[email protected]> wrote: > ... also very much touched ... > a nice way to try to understand, I felt it worked for me, but ... do we > understand what is happening ... We probably can't ... > > I don't think research can really make this better > there will always be some kind of detoriation as long as we will have > bodies, as long as we will continue to die > > we will have to accept it and give it a place, take time for it > > no way out > > Annie > > > > On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 11:33 PM, michael szpakowski <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> It's very powerful. It's a brave piece to make and it's empathetic too. I >> found it almost impossible to watch through to the end. >> My mum had vascular dementia for the last couple of years of her life & >> my mother in law died a couple of years ago with fairly advanced alzheimers. >> It's an utterly devastating thing. In a rational world we'd be pouring >> resources into doing something to find a cure yet as I understand it, >> research is relatively low down the list. >> >> michael >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Edward Picot <[email protected]> >> To: netbehaviour <[email protected]> >> Cc: >> Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2014 6:17 PM >> Subject: [NetBehaviour] Dementia >> >> A text-animation (with sound) on the subject of dementia. >> >> On my site: http://edwardpicot.com/dementia >> On YouTube: http://youtu.be/zklwJvs0kW8 >> On Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/102562177 >> >> >> - Edward Picot >> http://edwardpicot.com - personal website >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > > > > -- > > ///// > http://www.bram.org > http://aabrahams.wordpress.com > http://e-stranger.tumblr.com/ > http://readingclub.fr > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >
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