I’m 19 and don’t know what to do

PigQueen

My dad is 68 and was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s about a month ago. this was not a surprise, I started encouraging my mom to talk to him over a year ago but it still feels real all of a sudden. I see him a couple times a week and each time he’s losing more of himself and I just don’t know what to do to support him and my mom better.

M1

Welcome to the forum. I am so sorry you are facing this at such a young age. There are a number of folks here in similar circumstances, and we can all empathize with how difficult the losses are no matter what the age.

Your parents are lucky to have you. They would want you to live your own life, that's the best way you can honor them. Maybe this forum could help your mom too, you can show her and see what she thinks. You can also just flat ask her how you can help in a practical way, be it by running errands or giving her the occasional break to go out for an hour or two.

If you read a lot of threads you will learn a ton, and you will feel less alone i hope.

Stan2

Your parents are lucky to have you.

You may be able to help your Mom find the resources she needs . If she is not computer literate you could be her link to the web. She will need help and probably doesn't know yet what she needs.

Like the previous post said, read a lot of threads, not just the ones about parents, you will learn and get ideas.

I wish you the very best.

H1235

As a former teacher I find knowledge comforting. Having some ideas of what to expect next is so much better than going into things blind. Knowing for example, not to argue/correct or try to reason with a pwd will make things go so much more smoothly. So my advice is learn all you can. Some things and techniques can really take awhile to adjust to, they go against how we might normally approach our lo. The sooner you start the better.