Why it sucks to get old
My father went down hard with Alzheimer’s/dementia 6 years ago, but we still care for him and he still finds things in life to enjoy...even if he barely understands them. He is 82 now and we don’t find caring for him to be a burden. It is a cherished responsibility for a man who gave us life. He was the CEO of a biotech company that was one of the top 25 IPOs of 1992 that included companies like AOL.
It was hard to watch him decline at first...but after awhile, you realize that it is just a part of the cycle of life and caring for him now is as much my responsibility as his caring for me as a child was.
I just hate to think about my being there in the future...but I hope my family will be as kind and thoughtful to me in their feeling of responsibility as we are to him.
My father went down hard with Alzheimer’s/dementia 6 years ago, but we still care for him and he still finds things in life to enjoy...even if he barely understands them. He is 82 now and we don’t find caring for him to be a burden. It is a cherished responsibility for a man who gave us life. He was the CEO of a biotech company that was one of the top 25 IPOs of 1992 that included companies like AOL.
It was hard to watch him decline at first...but after awhile, you realize that it is just a part of the cycle of life and caring for him now is as much my responsibility as his caring for me as a child was.
I just hate to think about my being there in the future...but I hope my family will be as kind and thoughtful to me in their feeling of responsibility as we are to him.
