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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.

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

I’m 13 years old, which is the first thing I should mention. There are so many problems in my life right now, and it’s really getting to me. First, my dad. He’s 58 years old, a smoker since the age of 15 but trying to quit, and a good candidate for Alzheimer’s disease. He has a lot of trouble remembering things, and it runs in my family. He is also a very good candidate for lung cancer. His father died from a stroke or a heart attack before I was born (I forget…), and his mother just died from lung cancer. She only smoked for 20 years and quit about 40 years ago. He is also an alcoholic (not a severe one though). He got really, really drunk a couple nights ago and stumbled and hit his head on the balcony. He had to get stitches on his forehead and his eyes are bruised, and his nose is cut up. Next, my mom (50 years old). She is severely depressed. Her mom committed suicide before I was born, and her dad is suffering from congestive heart failure. She does A LOT of weed every night. She is also very, very dramatic (being depressed and all) and cries about twice a week. She and my dad don’t get along at all and my dad gets frustrated really easily. Her mom killed herself when she (my grandma) and her husband (my grandpa, the only grandparent still alive) got a divorce. If my mom and dad ever get divorced, which they probably will since they don’t get along at all, I really think she will do the same. All my mom ever does is loads up on anti-depressants then goes to sleep. Oh, and smokes weed. Then, she loads all her problems with her father and my dad onto us and cries to us. She is overweight too, and she never ever eats. It’s scary. But she never loses weight. Then, there’s my sister. My mom doesn’t get along with her either. They have had two fights today alone. My sister is 17 years old and goes out and parties a lot. She is a really good kid though, like she has never ever done weed (thank god, since it runs in my family haha), has a 4.7 GPA, and is still a virgin (awkward?). She just likes to have fun with her friends on summer nights. She does drink, but not excessively. But the thing with her is that I think she has some form of mental disease. I think she might be anorexic. You can see my question that describes her symptoms here http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqD_JYYoNhQf9Z1t2QrCZaPty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20110702014834AAzbU0d she might also be bipolar or something. She just gets so angry all the time. You can read the story in that question about her throwing her phone at my mom. Then I have a 20 year old brother, who’s actually fairly normal. He smokes weed, but what 20 year old doesn’t? Then there’s me. My brother lives far away (he’s in college), my sister is always out with friends, and what 13 year old wants to chill all day with her parents? I mean, sure, I go out to dinner with them, I do my mom’s makeup, I go downtown with my dad, but I’m not about to spend all my time with them. Especially since they’re so… depressing to be around. Here’s my problem though: I don’t have many friends. Girls in 7th/8th grade are just plain awful. I have about 3 friends that I would actually call up and hang out with, and I don’t even like hanging out with them. My sister even told me that the nicest friend I have is a bitch, so it’s not just me. I can’t make any new friends, it’s summer! Hopefully, I will in 8th grade. But anyway, I have nothing to do. Ever. So all I ever do is eat, run on the treadmill (I don’t do any sports, so I feel the need to), and watch TV. I use TV like a drug to get away from my problems. When I watch my favourite TV shows (Friends & Ugly Betty) I feel like I’m in a different land, away from a reality. I spend almost all day everyday watching TV or on Tumblr. I go to sleep at like 7 AM and wake up at like 2 PM. I can slowly feel myself becoming depressed. My dad says I live the life of a pothead, minus the weed. Everything is so fu*ked up. I just wish I was young again when I was oblivious to all these problems going on in my life. There’s nothing right about my life. Why does everyone in my family have such problems? They need to learn how to act. Their 13 year old daughter is slowly slipping into depression, because they’re all dumping their problems on me. I feel like the song Family Portrait by Pink describes my life fairly well. "Mama please stop cryin’, I can’t stand the sound, Your pain is painful, And it’s tearin’ me down" "It ain’t easy, growin’ up in World War III, Never knowin’ what love could be, You’ll see, I don’t want love to destroy me, Like it has done my family" "In our family portrait, We look pretty happy, We look pretty normal, Let’s go back to that, In our family portrait, We look pretty happy, Let’s play pretend, Act like it goes naturally". It’s weird because when I was
It’s weird because when I was younger, about 8 years old, I would look at our family picture and say, "I wish Mommy’s smile was real. I wish Daddy really put his arm around her like that in real life." and when I would do my mom’s makeup when I was younger I would ask her to smile while I did her blush and think, "I wish this smile was real. I wish she would smile in real life." Right now my sister is in her bedroom crying and my mom is bawling in her bedroom because of a fight they had. I can’t stand it. What can I do? Why is everything like this? I don’t want to turn into that when I’m older. All I want is a childhood that isn’t so damn fu*ked up. I don’t know why I posted this. Maybe I needed to vent? Maybe I should have written this into my diary. What can strangers do? Well, I hope someone out there can tell me something helpful. Because right now nothing is right and I don’t think it ever will be. Thank you for reading my stupid question that should probably be in a diary. Or a t
[Cont.] It’s weird because when I was younger, about 8 years old, I would look at our family picture and say, "I wish Mommy’s smile was real. I wish Daddy really put his arm around her like that in real life." and when I would do my mom’s makeup when I was younger I would ask her to smile while I did her blush and think, "I wish this smile was real. I wish she would smile in real life." Right now my sister is in her bedroom crying and my mom is bawling in her bedroom because of a fight they had. I can’t stand it. What can I do? Why is everything like this? I don’t want to turn into that when I’m older. All I want is a childhood that isn’t so damn fu*ked up. I don’t know why I posted this. Maybe I needed to vent? Maybe I should have written this into my diary. What can strangers do? Well, I hope someone out there can tell me something helpful. Because right now nothing is right and I don’t think it ever will be. Thank you for reading my stupid question that should probably be in a diary

My Nana (grandma) has been forgetting a lot of things and she’s getting older and isnt taking care of herself. She drinks non-stop and takes pills for depression and parties all the time.

My grandpa died in April in 2006 from alzheimers, and he was only in his 60′s. The alzheimers took control slow, and we cared for him over the years. It was, and still is, the most painful part of my life. My nana was a mess after he died and never recovered. Now she’s showing the same beginner signs my grandpa did. I’m terrified she’ll suffer my grandfathers fate. Please help.

Are we all paranoid because of how my grandpa died or can she be dying?

Please, help.

My grandma has it and I was just curious. Im also doing a project about it.

My Grandma died, my father and mother took care of her for years, none of my uncles or aunts called her for mother’s day, her birthday nor cared to visit her.

Now that she’s gone, my father’s older brother decided to ask my father for some of her money. My father doesn’t have it because of all these years he took care of her, spent her money on her clothes, food. My grandma had a house she let people rent in Texas before she got alzheimers. When she got alzheimers my father sold her home to him for a dollar and then just sold it. my grandma didn’t need the home and my father didn’t want it neither. the money was spent on her medical bills etc.

when my uncle (my dad’s older brother) told us that he wanted my grandma to visit us. (At this time she already had alzheimers)

It turns out…he left her with us, then told us "if you dont want to take care of her then put her in a home"

My mother isn’t the type of person who will put someone in a home because you know that sometimes they don’t treat the elderly right. Besides how terrible would you feel if your family puts you in a home because your too much of a burden. That’s sad.
my mother had to work 12 hour shifts and come home to take care of my grandma who had alzheimers. It was hard for my parents, my father had to retire early and give up a lot to help my mother take care of my grandma.

I was young at the time, well to make this short.

My uncle, the man who never called or visit his own mother is now sueing us. Funny thing is…this man didnt even stay for the funeral and his family walked in and didn’t go up to see her in the coffin

Now he is sueing us.

We just found out from my dad’s other brother that my uncle (the one who is sueing us) Made my grandma sign a will before he took her to come live with us.

So we need to see this Will (if there is one) and a copy of the deed to my grandma’s house (before she ‘sold’ it to my father) we are trying so hard to get all these documents and fight this case.

my father has the copies of her doctor bills, checks, the cost of daycare (if we did put her in a daycare) etc.

So please help us!
Is there a Website or a Library that would have all the info? like something Public? and if not then where would we be able to go to find this information?
my grandma died THREE WEEKS AGO. so it’s not that long. this was a rumor about my uncle making her sign a will.

My grandma use to live in Texas then she moves down here in Chicago.

so i have no clue when or where he had her sign at.

my dad is trying to get his paper work ready

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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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my mom takes care of my grandma she had this Alzheimer for i think 5 or 6 years. the doc says she in the mod. she never gets out of the house and she sleeps allot and eats good. she gets up and walks down the hallway and then gos to her room she knows everyone name in the family she sees everyday.her age is 80.i wondering how long she going to live. my grandma’s mother lived to be 92…how long do you guys think she live to her mothers age or not.

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She’s 9 yrs old and she’s developed anxiety since about 2 months ago. Since then, she’s been throwing temper tantrums, she’s angry, etc. I barely have any time alone because she’s very clingy and will not allow anyone to babysit her except her grandma. But grandma must take care of grandpa who has Alzheimers. I’m a single mom and I feel so lonely these days. I cry a lot because of her condition and I just feel stuck. No rude comments, please. Any advice or suggestions?
I don’t want to breakdown myself but she’s really taking everything I’ve got. I give her more than she needs and it feels as though it’s never good enough.

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My grandma has it, things are getting worse. She isn’t eating much and has hard time walking now.

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