Just got off the phone with my mom who's Spending her first Mother's Day without my dad who passed in February at 88. He jogged on his treadmill till he was 84 or 85. He slipped and fell doing some yard work, and while he didn't break his hip he bruised it pretty well and laid him up. It seems like the sudden cessation of his physical activities led to the noticeable onset of dementia and he took a steep decline over the past year before passing.
Sorry to hear about your Dad.
Very sorry for your loss & Happy Mothers Day to your mom.
Your story about your dad sounds a lot like my mom. She fell last year & didn’t break anything but at 78, she was still driving, active in the house/yard etc..
But after the fall, lost a lot weight, muscle tone & hasn’t been the same since...both physically & mentally.
She’s had three MRIs but they don’t see any Alzheimer’s/dementia.
Frustrating because they keep asking what he baseline was before fall, she was an active 78 year old!
A broken or seriously damaged hip is for some reason the worst thing that can happen to an elderly person, and I think the average life expectancy after the incident is under a year. No idea why.
But it sounds like he had a good life, and I hope your mom is doing well.