How to stave off dementia with these nine lifestyle changes

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Thank you for the info ma'am.

Lt Col Charlie Brown Thank you for the information.

Thanks Lt Col Charlie Brown for the tag.

CSM Charles Hayden Passed 7/29/2025 It was hard but not as bad as my father currently is. I had expected it from my mom. Her mom suffered from it and then her mother’s mom did too. My mom died in November as sharp as a tack but so sick and after suffering for many years. I had to move her to my house because she was bed bound and required 24/7 care and I was the only one willing and able to do it. My dad was already in the early stages before she died and suffered several bouts of hypoxemia causing respitory acidosis and alkalosis to the point that we almost had to intubate him. I had my mom in the hospital too getting her leg amputated. It was all so hard and overwhelming. My father is not a good candidate for dementia he is 6’6’ and was chief of police. He is used to being in charge and very authoritative. When in an extreme confused state he has knocked out a male nurse and a doctor. He has broken 4 point restraints and broken a CT table thinking he was being captured back in Vietnam. He stopped eating after mom died and lost 60 lbs that has only extended his life. He recently fell and fractured his skull and developed a brain bleed and then fell again and developed another. He had surgery but now he gets confused as ever. This last week he has investigated 2 murders, is mad at me because I keep making him miss his appointment about getting his house built (30 years ago) keeps asking me if mom is with me, thinks I’m mom or thinks I’m his sister who died 2 years ago of cancer. Has gotten disowned me multiple times because I would not get him out of the hospital, or rehab, and because I have taken his car because I am afraid he is going to try to drive. At least now I actually have help unlike when mom was dying and everyone was afraid to touch her because she was so fragile and body fluids were involved.

And coming at me from both sides and me suffering multiple head injuries and epilepsy after my skull fracture. I expect that I will develop it. I already had to stop nursing because I could not always remember my education when I needed it the most.

SGT Anna Kleinschmidt One of 3 hospitals in the Palm Springs, CA area has a GREAT daycare program for Alzheimer’s it’s. SCAN health insurance, available by surrendering one’s Medicare benefits did pay for ? 18 days of daycare.

That program also hosted a free weekly Support Group in an adjacent facility. Searching for assistance can be very rewarding if you find a good provider. I can say the ‘group’ saved my life by providing info and teaching me to care for myself so I could continue providing care for the late spouse.

PLEASE REACH OUT FOR ASSISTANCE!

They made too much money for us to get any real assistance for them when mom was alive, even dad couldn’t get care through va because he didn’t enroll before 2004 like I begged him to. I think I can get him in va now and get the assistance I need now, but it is a process. Sadly we live too far from anything that would give me any real help.