Mom with a dementia

July 22, 2017

Life is such a great teacher. Julia was taught so many lessons. Last 2 years her 86 old mom lives in 24 care hospital as a dementia senior citizen in China, she visited her mom every year and visited the facility, she knows how hard people are making a living once the aging is really getting those people. She watched her mom progressed from 80 years old to 86 years old, how she was panic four years ago since my sister as a physician told her that she will have dementia. My mom struggled to stay home with a full time care over 2 - 3 years and then finally moved in the 24 care facility in a hospital.

One of videos Julia recorded makes her almost cry to watch is to document her mom only remember her 20s songs but she could not memorize the latest activity. Video is here recorded 3 years ago.

Another video is about her mom to celebrate Chinese new year in 2014.

Last year when Julia visited her mom, her mom was not able to open mouth when some one feeds her. The nurse has to squeeze her nose in order to let her open mouth. And she lays on bed so that the career can feed her food. Life is such a gift for us, we have ability to eat, think and live independently.

Julia was so thankful to her sibling - her sister is a physician, a psychiatrist, she knows a lot about dementia, and helped my mom go over so many years struggle and still being able to live as a human being.