How to Cope With Alzheimer’s (Real Examples)04 Dec
Four examples below
Brenda Houman led a busy life as an accountant in Paris, Ontario, and also did 20 hours of volunteer work a week. She was in her late forties when she realized that she was forgetting things and could not calculate in her head as she was used to doing. Gradually, she also became more emotional and finally had to take leave from work.
It took 18 months and 127 medical appointments which finally resulted in a diagnosis of early Alzheimer’s. She also met Linda Westbrook and her singer/songwriter daughter Sarah which led to a song sung by Sarah, One More Memory. Brenda works at raising awareness about the disease and lives with her son, his wife and daughter. She lives one moment at a time.
Ted worked as a computer systems analyst in a major Chicago area hospital and noticed he was having memory problems at the work place. He wrote down step by step instructions and was able to follow them for sometime, but then complaints began mounting and he… Read More
