Dementia Chapter 4 Summary

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Chapter Four Summary * It’s hard when your spouse has an illness you can’t fix * It’s even harder to see your once healthy parents in declining health * Young people want to live forever, but for the elderly that concept is frightening * Children are perhaps the best caretakers of their parents * The elderly want to be home. Home is their security. Their home is where they are safe. Questions * What if children want to help but live far away? * What if children simply don’t care? * How do the elderly come to terms with aging? Do they ever? * How would you explain to a small child what dementia is? When their grandma forgets who they are? * What happens when it’s just not possible for older…show more content…
* If standard procedures aren’t a good option, what are the options? And why are they better? * Is it morally wrong to “let” an elderly person die? * If an older person doesn’t speak English well or at all, how do doctors tell them what they need to know? * How can parents ease the burden for their children? Chapter Six Summary * Children have difficult decisions to make for their parents everyday * Some older adults don’t look forward to anything * “A lot of people are what they do. If they can’t do anything, what are they?” * The elderly sometimes want the control to “end it”, they may not ever use it but they want it * Being a decent example to future generations * Within 25 years, there will be 70 million elderly people in
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