I agree with both points.
I'll say a prayer for your father.
Thank you both! Dad is taking Aricept, and Mom says it's helping with the everyday memory lapses. He's only 68; when they visited last month, he remembered a poem he wrote in elementary school (about his pet chicken), but didn't remember a two-week trip to Missouri in February. At least he remembers good things! I'm glad we moved back East ... I suspect God knew this was coming when there were no jobs in Tulsa!