My Experience of Alzheimer's Disease Reviews

Warning: this is a long review.. don't feel like you have to read it.. I just hope that it is useful/comforting/informing to at least one person who may be going through something similar. I have finally reached 100 reviews on here so I thought I would write about something close to my heart... My Grandma. Sadly she has ...  Read the complete review

I get annoyed when I watch the soaps and see how they do this illness no justice. My Nan who sadly passed away on the 30th November 2008, suffered with Alzheimer's for 10 years, it turned her into a shadow of her former self and seeing her suffer was so very hard, especially seeing how distraught my mother was. My Mum and ...  Read the complete review

Death smells of p*ss, as simple as. You come into the world as you go out, in pool of bodily fluids and functions as your torso and organs surrender before your brain, the instructions somewhat confused and ignored. When I go around my mums in the hot summer it's the lingering smell of urine that reminds me my dads gone, not the sun ...  Read the complete review

This is something that is very close to my heart and is something that I have never been able to talk about. I do not even know if I will be able to manage to get to the end and submit this review but I will try my hardest. We first noticed that something was wrong with my grandma when I was just 15 years old. We were all in ...  Read the complete review

Its a fact, you hear of some dreadful illness, and dismiss it thinking its the sort of thing which happens to other people. I heard a discussion one day on the t.v about alzheimers disease, and like most, didn, t give it a second thought, it was just too awful to contemplate, Well it has happened to my family, not once but twice,and ...  Read the complete review

I know that this is the season to be jolly but it isn't always an option for everyone so I am going to bite the bullet and write what is possibly the most difficult review that I have ever written. I do not intend to go into any medical details here about what Alzheimer's is and how is develops - suffice it to say that it is a ...  Read the complete review

I remember the last time my grandmother really spoke to me. I was 8 years old and about to board the train home to London from Manchester. " I love you and I really miss you, you know?" she said with tears in her eyes, holding my face in her hands. I was too young to understand what provoked this sudden sentimentality. However, ...  Read the complete review

As we get older there are many disabling diseases which affect us, some affect our bodies and others our minds. Some can kill us instantly while others attack us slowly and progressively. This is about one of the later which unfortunately is one of the diseases which is very rarely talked about in everyday society but one which ...  Read the complete review

My old Auntie is now in a nursing home and she has Alzheimer?s. It is so sad. She is 89 years old. It all started about a year ago (well she knew her memory was going before that) but she realized she would have to go into a home eventually as she was forgetting how to do everyday things like using the electric kettle and make ...  Read the complete review

Firstly let me tell you what I do. I'm a Mental Health Worker, I work for the Community Mental Health Team for the Elderly. Mental Health? I hear you say, isn't that for mad people, schizophrenics, etc.? Actually no. Dementia is a neurological condition affecting the physical and mental well being of a person, hence, its the ...  Read the complete review

I grew up with an understanding of dementia as my maternal Grandmother had succumbed to it at a relatively young age. Mercifully, she had other health problems and passed away before she became totally non- compus mentis.She died the week my 'O' levels started and it was all very sad. We then got on with our lives, as you do, and ...  Read the complete review

I was talking about my aunt with my parents a little while ago, and mentioned her dodgy memory. “She wasn’t always like that you know”, was the response that came back at me. This is strange, because for as long as I can remember, my aunt has been forgetting. She would consistently turn up to birthdays a day late, but ...  Read the complete review

When we celebrated my father's 80th birthday in July 1992, he was in reasonable health. During the previous ten years he had had two fairly mild strokes and a minor heart attack, but recovered well from each. Nevertheless old age was catching up with short-term loss of memory, increasing absent-mindedness, and a desire to argue for ...  Read the complete review