When your parents enter their twilight years, particularly when one of those parents is dealing with dementia, emigrant offspring can face conflicts
That is, as some of you will be aware, advice given to passengers by airplane cabin crew in the event of an emergency that requires oxygen masks to be worn on board. Those with a more narcissistic personality may wonder why such a message is needed at all. “Eh, I always look after number one first.”
With my parents entering their twilight years and with an amount of flexibility on my side in terms of being available to help out where possible and required, I figured I could be at least of some benefit by being physically closer to my family while I try to navigate through my own fog of uncertainty.
That aside, I can say with some certainty that my occasional assistance has been appreciated by my father. Of course, the most likely scenario is that her condition will deteriorate to the point where she’ll put both herself and others at risk if left to fend for herself. Such care from a family member is made even more difficult when the patient is merely the body of the person you once knew so well. Their mind and thus their actions become alien. The parasitic dementia is in control.
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