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My grandma (dad’s mom) has alzheimers. She is probably in the later stages and won’t be around much longer, which to tell you the truth is a blessing. My dad has sisters and brothers who mainly visit and take care of her, so we aren’t really involved with that, but I think this is bothering my dad (who is 56) because personality wise he is very much like my grandma, and i think he is scared of getting the disease as well. Is there any study that shows how it is passed down (for example, since my grandma has it, will my dad get it?)… my mom’s mom is the same age as my dad’s mom, but her memory is still great for being 81 years old and she has no indication of this terrible disease (thank God).

Does anyone know of any probabilities of getting the disease based on family history?

Thanks

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would you do anything in your power to keep him safe from taking off?im rying to see how many of you would do this,you see my 97 yr old dad has this and takes off when the aide is not here.its only me and my twisted father.right now hes god knows where and my younger brother isnt worried,infact he doesnt care.but hes sent his daughter to look for my dad.lazy piece of ****!
i have no health care training or knowledge of alzheimers disease ,im a frakin greenie with this.im afraid hes gonna get killed or lost.
hes sweeping him under the rug so to speak.
i neglected to tell you that my dumb***** brother refuses to put my dad in a home,he says dad lives here,and he will die here,a sick lame excuse eh??

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I just drove down to mcdonalds while my parents weren’t home but i got caught. i only have my permit, i am 17 almost 18. i live at home, i did online high school, so i have done nothing other than that since january when i started online high school. i just wanted to do something fun and cool while my sis is out of town and so i drove her car while my parents were gone. then when i came home my parents were already back. i realize how grounded i am and how many rules i broke. i wont be able to drive for the next few years now unless i magically get the money to buy and insure my own car- i’ll have to ride my bike to a job [if i even succeed in that.]
i can get the job i wanted now because i went all year in a separate class from online high school to get my certification in nursing aides and all i got was the next best thing which is caregiving which i dont want to do. my teacher didn’t even care she jst said oh you didnt really like nursing anyway?
well yeah i did! thats why i came to class everday for a year.
How can i pick myself bakc up again?

also im trying to be weened off of my antidepressant and feel
good on my own. however i dont knwo how i can do this with my dim future.
also im smart im just too lazy to correct my punctuation, spelling, whatever. sorry!

i didnt even get anything from mcds because they only serve breakfast at this hour which i hate.

God Blees
Angel
Pleas help even if its harsh advice just help me!

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well as mentally abusing me,by telling me what to do in my situation in my case its my ill elderly parents,dad has severe alzheimers disease,and my mom is bedridden,we have aides for the daytime,but wiith my dad its at night that we need the help,dad roams the apartment at night and does the weirdest things,he moves things and hides the cooking things,2 years ago he defiantly yanked my mother out of her bed while still asleep, and was seen by aides acting roughly towards my mother,he thinks that being as im living here i an the nightime aide im not trained for that type of work ,at one point hes threatened me with having my bedroom door removed so i can hear things. another thing is the fact that we used to live upstairs,and my dad has flashbacks of that and once he roamed upstairs and scared the pants off the family up there,i have my door closed and locked at night,with dads condition and mental instability i dont trust him ,he might walk in my room and god knows what hed do. im sleeping in his and moms queen sized bed,the aide did that to deter my dad from yanking my mom out of her bed,hes sleeping in my bed,if i were to keep my door open da might see his bed,and me sleeping there — 1+1=2 i put numbers together and i came up with my dad seeing me in his bed sleeping,his idea? let me join my wife and sleep with her,this is the reason i want my door closed and locked at night.my brother as i said,is threatening me with having my door removed,id have no privacy!!!! and my dad could waltz in and out of my room 24/7 day or night.i dont like this sick idea of his.hes always picking on me . this is emotional and mental abuse TO ME,i cant open my mouth to retaliat because in three words—-im afraid of him!!

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I am an adult who was born to a mother who has never been a moral person. She has done some truly vile things to me and others over the years and continues to do so even at the age 70. I am having a difficult time understanding how I am supposed to honor her when her belief system is so opposite of what I believe to be honorable; when her actions are so mean spirited and confrontational and always have been. My value to her is a financial one only. When she no longer has a crisis, then I am not of any use to her and she treats me badly. I can not respect her because she is not someone to respect. Sad but true. Alcoholism and mental disease are only the tip of the iceberg. Her sickness goes much much deeper, from abuse to actually trying to leave me with a known pedifile at the age of 12. She is toxic. But now she has developed signs of Alzheimers and needs someone to care for her well being. She is too mean to put in a nursing home and not that gone yet. How do I honor this woman?
What I meant to say is that she is too violent to put in a nursing home. And accepting Christ into her life is not something that will ever happen. She scorns all religion and God. The devil has really been planted into her soul for a very long time.
Thank you all for some very good answers and insight. I have been grappling with how to handle this situation for a long time. I did try to forgive a long time ago for the things I went through as a child at her hands and I really think I had achieved a certain level of peace with it all or at least acceptance of "life happens". But I made the mistake of trying to help her with her current lifes situation and little by little got drawn back into her sick dramas within our family. I finally blew up after the latest horrid incident and told her I was washing my hands of her. But after reading all of your answers I was able to gain a little more perspective again and realize that I must continue to be the best that I can be but use maturity and restraint where she is concerned and do what I know is right. Thankfully I was blessed with a wonderful grandmother that instilled moral values in me and I have been able to raise 2 very loving and sane children. Thank you all for your kind words.
I have decided to take your advice and honor my mother by making sure she has a safe environment to live in. I will try to help her where I can. I will try to refrain from speaking ill of her bo matter how tempting. But I will not allow her to inflict anymore pain upon me or my family. Blessings to all….

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without getting too out of hand,my 95 year old father has alzheimers disease,hes in the 4th stage of it,hes getting to be a complete pain to the aide and me.he needs a nursing home,the trouble here is that my brother refuses to put h in one,dad takes off,and plays mind games with the aide,hes doing things a child would do,tuning people out when called,and hes defiant as they come.my mom is also ill shes bedbound,once my dad pulled my mother out of her bed and attempted to pick her up,hes as weak as a baby,so in his attempt he failed and dropped my mother on the floor on her knees.he did this as she slept which scared the sap out of her,then at 3:30am ( when he did this) he wakes me up and says mother fell out of bed,i looked at him and said–how could she ,she cant move! i went in their room and there was my terrified mother on her knees at the foot of her bed with her diaper off,this was last christmas,now, yesterday morning the aide came in and saidmy dad attemted to do this again,the bed railling was all the way down! thank god he didnt move her! is this refusal to have my dad hospitalised a form of elder abuse? my brother cannot keep shoving his duties as a son under the rug he seldom comes here to see his parents and see how things are with them.he doesnt call us either,alright he has a pressing job,hes a dentist,but for crying out tears,pick up the darn phone and call us.hes here id say once a month he sees my parents for 10 minutes then hes out.

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This has been going on for several months and it’s not only annoying as hell but it’s freaking me out a little bit at this point, it happens almost on a daily basis. I keep saying the wrong things! I don’t mean I put my foot in my mouth (I’ve always done that); I mean I’ll actually go to say one thing and something totally different will come out of my mouth. For instance, I’ll intend to tell my daughter to go brush her teeth, and instead I’ll say, "Go take a bath." and she always looks at me like I’m nuts and then I realize I’ve done it yet again! And I’m like, "What did I just tell you to do?" because I don’t even know what I just said if it wasn’t the right thing. Or at work I’ll mean to ask if the coffee is fresh and instead I’ll say, "Is there any coffee made?" when it’s right in front of me and I know full well there’s coffee made, so people think I’m smoking crack or something, they think I’ve got ******* Alzheimers disease I swear to God. And I’m only in my 30′s. Is it possible that I do? What the **** could possibly cause this?

Also, Alzheimers doesn’t run in my family and there’s nobody with any kind of early onset dementia or anything like that. So it’s not an inherited condition of any kind. I have no idea what it is.
I have been to my family doctor and he said I don’t sleep enough and I’m under too much stress, but he didn’t do any kind of tests or anything.

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I’ve seen a lot of otherwise good people do it, and have done it myself. How does God feel about this matter? It’s gotta be incredibly evil, right?

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My grandparents are fairly extreme about their religion. I have had debates with them where they say that if I don’t believe in Jesus as my savior then I am going to hell. I retort with, "What about people that don’t know about Jesus?" They say that they are going to hell. Well, what about people that have Alzheimer’s? What if they can’t remember who Jesus is? What if they think that their kids name is Jesus? Is that blasphemous? Are they going to hell? It is my understanding that in Evangelical Protestantism one must believe Jesus to be the Messiah. I don’t think I like this God.

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we are in india and we need your help to treat my nephew’s mother who is 33 and suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. In this disease the brain cells deteriorate and the person’s personality and behaviours changes . my nephew don’t want to see her mother change in front of her eyes. she is in a sad state and we need to buy her medicine and treatments. they dont know english so i set up a website with a friend of mine to help raise some money for them. if you can please donate some money so we can buy her medicines,treatment costs..we dont have enough money to treat her properly,please my nephew needs your help. She lost her dad already and she is very sad. If u can put a smile on her face that’s all we want. We are not trying to steal your money, we really need some help, so if you could undersand us.
god bless you all for your generosity.
if you want to donate go this site http://www.freewebs.com/helpmynephew…

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