Caring for Alzheimer's

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I’m 15 and I really need a job. I live in Lake Forest CA and I’m looking like a caregiving or babysitters job because I grew up taking care of my brothers and sister. I also take care of my house when my parents are working. I need the pay to help support myself and my school needs. Money is tight with my parents right now. If someone can help me get started, that would be great.

I’m the youngest of the family. My siblings all live across the country, in different cities. I care for both my parents. My dad has Alzheimers and I go tuck him in bed every single night at the nursing home. My mom had a mini-stroke in July and I visit her everyday, go eat dinner at her place, do the laundry, etc. Apart from that, I have a daughter and my own business to take care of. Yes, my plate is more than full. My siblings are pretty much not involved, except for yearly visits. When I talk to them about being far away, they say that I’m meant to be where I am and that’s just the way it is. Very nice indeed. Now, would it be too much to ask of them to come down to visit and stay with my mom for 2 weeks during the year? Let’s say, 2 weeks per sibling (I have 3 of them). That way, I could do what I long to do and just have a break. They could spend their 2 weeks here doing what I do every day. Problem is, the return trip costs over ,000.00 and some of them can’t afford it. My mom could probably pay but I don’t think it’s up to her to do that. I’m here all the time and don’t get paid. Is this too much to ask of them? I wish they’d offer that on their own and that I didn’t have to request this. What do you think?

I’m the youngest of the family. My siblings all live across the country, in different cities. I care for both my parents. My dad has Alzheimers and I go tuck him in bed every single night at the nursing home. My mom had a mini-stroke in July and I visit her everyday, go eat dinner at her place, do the laundry, etc. Apart from that, I have a daughter and my own business to take care of. Yes, my plate is more than full. My siblings are pretty much not involved, except for yearly visits. When I talk to them about being far away, they say that I’m meant to be where I am and that’s just the way it is. Very nice indeed. Now, would it be too much to ask of them to come down to visit and stay with my mom for 2 weeks during the year? Let’s say, 2 weeks per sibling (I have 3 of them). That way, I could do what I long to do and just have a break. They could spend their 2 weeks here doing what I do every day. Problem is, the return trip costs over ,000.00 and some of them can’t afford it. My mom could probably pay but I don’t think it’s up to her to do that. I’m here all the time and don’t get paid. Is this too much to ask of them? I wish they’d offer that on their own and that I didn’t have to request this. What do you think?

These kids’ parent is the only one in the family with this diagnosis, so it’s not a case in which there is a long family history of the disease. The parent was in mid-50s when diagnosed, and is now in the early 60s and severely disabled. A few families have reacted like these kids have a death sentence too, or like it’s contagious. One kid told them that he/she was told by parents not to get serious about one of the kids with the ill parent, since the family’s genes were really bad.

We thought that society has come a long way from hiding family members with dementia…but perhaps not?

I am the sole cargiver of my alzheimers parents & prepare all their meals. My mother constantly sets perishables out on the counter to rot or pours them down the drain when I am not looking. Probably because she knows its wrong otherwise why wouldn’t she do it when I can catch her. I need to be the only one able to access perishable food, we can’t afford to waste the money & food.

What way can I key lock a full size refrigerator. Does it require altering the refrigerator? the refrigerator is part of the apt. rental so I wouldn’t be able to screw in hardware. Would a bike chain be big enuf to go around locked with a padlock? Please any ideas out there?

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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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I live and work in the US (Bay Area, California). My parents lie in India. My father suffers from Parkinson’s plus disorder (most likely MSA – Multiple System Atrophy). I would like to have him diagnosed and treated for, by having both my parents over here. My parents have a multiple-entry Visitor VISA to USA. Where can I find good Health Insurance that can cover his treatment/care-giving expenses for his stay here?

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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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I am my mom’s primary caregiver have been sense 2007 .I have no income to live by on my own . My parents pay for my food, rent ,and everything ,they can’t afford it anymore, they lost everything and so did I. I can’t afford to pay for my tuition or class fees. I want to get my c.n.a right away ,so I can help out . I don’t know how to find grants, or a program I can make it to ,and still be able to take care of her. I am at my wits end,I can’t find any kinda help or any where hiring for any kinda job that I can qualify for within 5 miles of me, and I don’t have transportation to go farther from my home. I have health issues’ of my own (j.r.a ,asthma,and ovarian problems ) ,so i can’t do tons of physical labor activity ( I can do enough to help out) ,caregiving is the only talent that I have to go to a career .I don’t know how to even start with my plans for a better future .I heard medicaid will pay some to take care of their family memember’s but looking into it I don’t think colorado has something to help out . Does anyone know how to help? A online college that I could get my cna and be at home most of the time to keep her stable but earn the credits needed ? anything that could help my situation get any better? Please help

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All the stories and statistics I hear are horrendous. And in the case of Autism, apparently getting worse.What are the true number projections? Is the situation any better in other countries? There seems to be a lot of research in progress but very little progress in the research. Alzheimer’s has the one positive aspect of being of limited duration due to its fatality, but Autism lasts a long lifetime. What happens when the Autisitc kid’s parents get Alzheimer’s? Are we about to become a nation of group homes and shelters on every street? Are there any hopeful forecasts on this that Im not seeing?

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