Released: June 25, 2007

Your aging parents and you

Source: USA Today

A series in USA Today explores the financial and emotional costs of helping aging parents.

First you get phone calls that seem kind of strange. Mom is quitting her bridge club because “they think I’m stealing from them.”
A week later, she mentions an old boyfriend from the war who’s coming to take her to dinner. You think, OK, it could be true.

Then the police call from her house. “Your mom thinks there’s someone hiding under her bed.”

Now you know. The forgetfulness, the fantasies, are dementia, Alzheimer’s, something like that. Your sister suspects the worst.

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