I read the article at the following link with great admiration for its author, along with much compassion and understanding.
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/curr/when-alzheimers-makes-room-for-love-20180319 My beloved Mom started showing signs of this dreaded disease in the late 1980's when she was 81. She was a tiny, active, and much younger looking than her age, woman who still was very active in her Church and well-known in the bowling and golfing communities. I will always be grateful to the fellow bowling neighbor who picked up my Mom, took her to bowling, and to all of the rest of the bowlers who looked after her, and when she returned from the rest room, made sure she got back to "her team".
While my Father was still alive, he had women who cared for her during the day, while he still work at his fuel oil business, and then he...the same age as my Mom..took care of her at night..while she wandered and removed clothes from closets and drawers etc.
After my Father died, when both were 88, my sister and I (both who lived many miles from Watertown) were BLESSED by having two wonderful woman take care of our Mom, 24/7, until her death at 96. One huge plus was that our Mom remained in excellent health and was very mobile throughout.
Also, her personality remained and she was the same very loving, caring woman she had always been.
I consider myself to also be a very loving, caring person, but I don't know if I would have the patience of article author, Lisa Solod, and the many thousands of other family members who are struggling to give love and support to loved ones afflicted with this dreadful disease...which to me, is worse than almost any other disease.
This horrible disease is so wide-spread that I expect there are several other webboard members who can relate.
And OFF TOPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Many thanks to you BigBear2 for constantly and regularly coming up with topics of interest to keep this webboard going. Hugs to both you and Bondo (and Tree, who I have never had the pleasure of meeting)!!!!!!!! :-)