Caring for Alzheimer's

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OK, my grandma is coming here for thanksgiving. My dad HATES my grandma, and she is hear to take care of my mom, who has alzheimers. My dad wants to take me on a vacation for thanksgiving. Where should we go? Also, include airline fairs from San Diego.
I live in San Diego, California.

this video was hard to make, and is the only video of mine i will never watch or preview. i just needed to get thisall off my chest.

My grandma has a disease called Alzheimer’s It’s a disease (normally found in elders) where they lose their memory. Alzheimer’s disease is an irreversible degeneration of the brain that causes disruptions in memory, cognition, personality, and other functions that eventually leads to death from complete brain failure. Alzheimer’s disease is the 6th leading cause of death in the United States. This is a very sad disease and all we can do is support, and love and care for these people who are suffering with Alzheimer’s. Hopefully, they will find the cure to Alzheimer’s someday. view this site for more facts on Alzheimer’s www.ahaf.org

through the years my grandma has always been pretty sharp. she has always been very stubborn and hates it when shes wrong. but lately, for the past couple months, i have noticed a change in her behavior. she has always been the nice one while my grandpa was the grumpy one, but lately she has been acting out for every little thing! she has been very….. touchy i guess. she gets mad super easily and to her nothing is ever her fault. when shes wrong, she gets mad, when something is missing, she blames others and gets mad. today we were planing a meal for a family get together for about 25 people. i had found some snacks in the freezer that i thought we could use for the party. obviously there weren’t enough, but we could still use them. my grandpa told my grandma, "i don’t think there’s enough." and my grandma flipped. she slammed the snacks on the table and said, "fine! we wont use them. GOD!" then she tried to laugh her way out of it a few minutes later. little incidents like this one have happened almost everyday for a couple months. she never calls when she knows she will be home late. sometimes she will visit a patient (shes an IV nurse) and she will be gone for hours! no one knows where she is! she will come home around 11:00 pm and say she just went shopping.. i guess she could be stressed since we moved in with her last year…. but i don’t think so because we have helped her quite a bit. am i over reacting? could it just be the fact that shes stressed? she really worries me! i love my grandma so much! she has always been there for me and now she has been very difficult! especially to my grandpa! please help! my grandma means the world to me!

I’m currently a sophomore in high school, and i want to start looking for scholarship opportunities. I need advice on how to start my search, or if anyone happens to know of any i can apply for. I know it’s still early, but i want to make sure i’m doing things the right way so i’m not struggling when junior and senior year come. I’m still trying to decide what i want to do in the future, but i’m starting to narrow down my choices.

My school is one of the top public schools in the state and nation, and my GPA is about 4.3. (On a 5 point scale.) In addition to that, I’m in 4 clubs, i did volunteering at a day care for several years (it closed when i was in 8th grade; i’m currently looking for other volunteer opportunities, and i did do some work freshman year), and i’m doing a sport (water polo) for the first time this spring.

Outside of school, i’m looking for a job now and will probably start working weekends. Also, I’m not quite sure how much this affects my chances, but as far as my economic status is concerned my family is about 0 over the poverty limit. My dad isn’t working due to the fact he’s taking care of my grandma- who suffers from Alzheimers, and my mom has health issues that prevented her from working for a long time.

Thanks in advance.
Typo: My GPA is about 4.4.

Ok so I am an 18 year old guy and I am depressed recently on and off for days at a time. Here is my story: In elementary school I didn’t have but a couple friends and I was always the kid to get blamed and in trouble for something others did and no one believed me. So bad to the point that my parents had a conference with the principal and I had anger management class for a year instead of recess. I never did anything but was always blamed and no one believed me. Then, in middle school things were ok and I liked a girl and asked her out and then she left me for my best friend (not the biggest deal really) then in high school, my father left my mom and I and I still haven’t seen or talked to him (and my dog) for over 2 years. We moved into my grandparents house then into a one bedroom apartment (all we could afford and no internet or cable). Then my great grandmother (whom I spent tons of time with and was my closest friend) passed away after having Alzheimer’s and basically forgetting who I was and all the fun things we had done together. Shortly after, my grandma (also close to and saw daily) died unexpectedly and then 3 family friends that I had also been close to even though they were older (old neighbors who I would see and say hi to daily) one of which was a really sweet old lady whom I used to help with yardwork and was really kind. Then finally I got a girlfriend whom I really loved and spent 6 months together until telling me she fell for her ex again and was flirting with him behind my back in texts for several weeks. I am 18 and don’t have a car or license because I can’t get a job to pay for a car and insurance and gas. I hate just about everything in my life and feel like I don’t belong anywhere. I have severe depression on and off and it can last for days and I wont talk and wont eat or even want to get out of bed. Please help idk what to do…

Hi. I’m 16 years old and right now I have a lot on my shoulders. First, I have school and grades to concentrate on, but right now they are dropping a lot. See, I take care of my grandma. She has dementia/Alzheimers and I don’t know if you have ever known anyone with that or taken care of them, but it can be really hard and stressful. My day consists of getting up, getting ready for school, getting my brother off to school, and then leave to go to school. Try not to let my grades drop, then come straight home, cook dinner for my brother, and leave right after that to go over to my grandma’s house. Stay over there until six. I take my homework with me and try to do it over there, but it never works. She asks me the same question every 2 minutes, and I have to clean her house and cook her dinner as well, while my grandpa is at work. Then I come home, and feed my dogs, and finally eat dinner, get my shower, and try to finish as much hw as possible. It’s hard and stressful, and I will admit some days I just break down crying because of all of it. I don’t ever have time to hang out with my friends, and on the weekends, I try to catch up on work, and then go out and run errands for myself. I also babysit my cousins 2-3 times a week, to get some money and help my aunt out. So instead of coming home from watching my grandma at 6, I leave and go straight over there to babysit until 10. that’s when she gets home. A lot of my friends are getting mad at me and started not talking to me, because I haven’t had time to spend with them, and say I have too much on my shoulders. Sometimes I feel I should just drop out of school because my grades are going from straight A’s to straight D’s and a few F’s. I don’t think my teachers understand what all I go through at home. My mom has depression and can’t do much, so I basically run the house. Along with all that, I also have health problems, which stress only makes worse. I am hypoglycemic, and if I skip just one meal, I can pass out, which it’s really easy for me to skip meals a lot of the time, because I’m so busy, and I’ve just skipped breakfast before, and actually passed out at school. I also have anxiety which stress also makes it worse because it gives me anxiety attacks. I’m not on any meds right now, but I’m considering it. Anyways I know this is long, but I’m in desperate need of advice. What should I do? Continue doing all of this, or do I just need to focus on school. If I stop taking care of my grandma I don’t know who will be able to. Please help. I really need some advice here, so stressed out.

Am i basically screwed? My grandma had and now i can see it in my mom, what am i going to do when i get older? Im 16 do you think there will be a way to prevent it within the next 60 years?

My Grandpa has Alzheimer’s and tomorrow and basically all week I’m going to baby sit him. Most of my family just leaves him alone all day and he freaks out about where his wife went and who is going to pick her up and where is his van and all this stuff. He usually goes and walks to the mail box 10 times a day. So I’m baby sitting him for money and I don’t want to ignore him all day so is there anything that we can do to keep his mind occupied while my grandma is working? I will be over about 9am-4pm… If I take him for a walk around the neighbor hood, will there be a chance he will walk around the neighbor hood again? I don’t want him to get lost.

~Thanks every one
If it helps he is 86 and grew up in the Philippines… I already know a lot about him. Sometimes he still thinks he is young and in the Philippines.

I’m dealing with two elderly family members who are both in poor health. Neither person has a good quality of life and their outcome. if they get better will not be a good one. Both need round the clock care. One is my father, with alzheimers who is a wandering risk. His health is fragile as well and he lives in an alzheimer’s care nursing unit.

In the case of my husband’s grandma, she has breathing problems and is in the hospital right now. She will come home to a family who loves and cares for her 24/7.

When they are at that situation in their health, should we pray for their healing, or pray that God will take them home?

How would you want to be prayed for in this situation?

Thank you for your counsel.