[Yaelle]

I’m not even going to read it, tears already. My dad, late stage alzheimers but still happy and sweet though nonverbal, adores my turning-three-tomorrow daughter, and my bro moved my parents across the country. I totally get it.

My beautiful dad always had a chaotic office, papers everywhere. He was known for it. But now he is obsessed with order, and lines up everything and can’t stand one thing out of place. My little girl loooooves to make messes of newspaper, toys, anything. So when we stay at their house, they are the perfect buddies. She makes the messes, he cleans them up. When he sees a picture of her he sometimes will say “my girl.” And he can’t always say what he wants to!

I think all senior homes should be next to preschools.

[hummingbird]

"I think all senior homes should be next to preschools."

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I read an article years ago about such an arrangement. It worked out well for everybody.

Don't recall where it was or if any other such arrangements had been made.

It is a wonderful idea to keep trying.

[longhorn too]

My dad died with Alzheimer’s in 2006. It was such a sad ordeal for over three years. It seems wrong to say this but he died from liver cancer which was a blessing. He lived for only 5 days after being diagnosed with cancer. He died in his sleep with my mother, brother and I with him around 9:30 am. Mother had been talking to him the entire night telling to it was alright to let go. She said he even smiled at her at one time, something he had done in months.