Five News | Living With Dementia

Joan Van Gelden lost her husband to senile dementia. She talks about his decline, from initally losing his way home to being unable to communicate at all and eventually having to put him in a home. The video was made by her granddaughter Jess Chandler. She sent it to Five News for our Your News part of the programme.

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[NephiliPrime]

Wish there was a cure, but wishing won't make a magic potion appear.

[deejaypham]

The video response is my video dedication to my mother who has this illness.

[amazingdany]

What an awful disease... Aging is one life's most evil and suckiest obligation.

[SESAHFUND]

Please check out my page...God bless everyone with this disease and the loved ones that are taking care of them

[tommytigers]

this lady Sharon Snir wrote an inspirational book on how to deal with family members with dementia. i highly recommend watching her youtube video. its called:

"Looking For Lionel-How I Lost and Found my Mother through Dementia"

[Owen4004]

@KHORDIxPRODUCTIONS i agree

[KHORDIxPRODUCTIONS]

this is worse than cancer.

[thedirtynasty]

Theres a reason nature makes you die before this disease takes its full tole, its called mercy.

Im witnessing what this disease can do and dying in your sleep, having a heart attack, even getting shot in the head is a much better way to go then letting the disease progress until your overwhelmed by the severe horrible effects, after a point your just keeping a body alive, all there is inside is a tortured soul that shouldve died a while ago.

If you get this disease, do not take the medicine.

[1981z28camaro]

yeah, that's it.

[fuzzypoo2002]

I think you mean "fluoridated" water.