I am about to become an Alzheimer's caregiver

[jmowreader]

7. We're having a family meeting on Wednesday

I've noticed his deep-seated memories are still there. For instance, when they lived at Glacier National Park (he designed all the main roads running through Glacier in the early 1950s when he was in the Bureau of Public Roads) they had to bring their garbage cans inside the house to keep the bears from eating the contents. So...he tries to bring the cans in now, so the bears won't eat the trash.

They live in town and have a garage the bears couldn't get in if they tried, but he still thinks the garbage needs to be inside.

The hardest part so far is convincing Mom not to scream at him because he "forgot" something she told him last week. Problem is, the neurons that hold last week's information aren't there any more, so he never knew it.