He sleeps a lot. He is awake 6 to 9 hrs & usually quite happy. He is not incontenent, eats everything, does 100 pc puzzles & dot to dot. Can't remember from 1 minute. Thanks me a lot. Asks me what my name is. Doesn't recognize our kids but they tell him or wear a name tag. He walks slower but gets tired. I keep getting info of affordable memory care places in case it gets to that. He has nothing else wrong that we know of. Just wondered how many with 11 yrs are out there & how they are doing. My spouse is 87.
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she started having memory issues around 2010. no ALZ dx til 2018
she is almost 89. her memory is about 1 minute, sometimes a few seconds.
she still feeds herself, dresses and bathes. but I noticed lately she doesn't wash her hair.
she needs help finding things like her glasses. cant remember where she puts stuff. has problems with making up stories, and cant reason.
shes in assisted living since 2011 after breaking her hip.
she is on low dose anti depressant for anxiety(?) related to obsessing about multiply things.
she has other medical problems, osteoporosis, cholesterol, skin cancer on nose
so, so far id say shes been declining for about 8 years. she could be like this for awhile, so no body knows.
he was born in 1922 and passed 2015 so he was 93. he was in BAD shape for about a year. he probably started a real decline from 2005 - 2015.
this is just an approx. - but im thinking about 10 years. the 1st few years not so bad. but getting read bad about 2014.
he had other issues too. prostate cancer. thyroid issues. bad knees. took low dose aspirin and thyroid, plus high cholesterol meds(?)
towards the end he was on low dose anti psychotic.
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Look into care homes. Much smaller and homier environment. In my mom's case she was moved to one after a year and a half in a large facility. It was a couple of thousand less than memory care.