Me, my mom, my elder daughter and my mom’s four great-grandkids at Dementia Homecare Centre during a recent CNY visit, When the doctor told me last March that my mother had dementia, the news wasn’t exactly a shock. My mother had become increasingly forgetful over the past months, and acting peculiar. Initially I put it […]
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I once asked my mom’s cardiologist which diseases doctors feared most for themselves. His immediate answer: stroke and dementia. I had expected him to say cancer. Dementia is incurable, irreversible and terminal. At least that is what doctors and medical researchers claim. The disease doesn’t concern us much until it strikes our elderly parents and
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I’m glad I decided to go ahead with my plan to attend the just-concluded Asia Pacific Conference on Ageing organized by the Gerontological Society of Singapore in conjunction with its 25th anniversary celebrations. Given my mother’s condition, I was particularly interested in the presentations on dementia and caregiving of the elderly with dementia. I picked up
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My mother was discharged on Monday evening 21 March. The final bill for 15 days of hospitalization, angioplasty and bipolar hemiarthoplasty came to RM45,532.90. There’s still weeks if not months of follow-up medical examinations and physiotherapy, not to mention a supply of expensive pills for the rest of her life. By no means is the
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Today is Day 7 of my mother’s hospitalization. She had an angioplasty done on her last Tuesday. She’s doing fine, eating well and enjoys being pampered by her visitors and the nurses. Still, she is impatient to go home. She has been lying in bed 24/7, unable to move much as her right leg is
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