08/17/22 Grandparents

Today went to my grandparents with my parents. Grandma is 87 and Grandpa 87. My dad is there son. Anyways today things were the same with my grandpa. He falls asleep in comfortable positions. He doesn’t speak much. When he does he only gets a few words out then gets confused. Then we’re trying to figure out what he’s saying. He get distracted like saying randomly that there are cars passing by or birds are flying by. When talking to him he saying hmmm a lot and chuckles but doesn’t reply back. He recently fell in a store parking lot. Lucky it he had just a sore butt and a small scratch on elbow that didn’t bleed. He doesn’t smile alot only at our dog or when we arrived today. He looks sad or confused most of the time. His mobility isn’t not great and he gets tired easily. My grandma get upset that she is seeing the dementia/ Alzheimer’s taking over her husband. She actually said today that he doesn’t have a quality of life anymore. She said why do we live long and a disease would kill us and suffering just sucks. He doesn’t enjoy anything. My grandma well being is being affected. There were times today where she was getting emotionally about her situation and has a hard time enjoying things since she is his care taker. She is afraid of him driving cuz he forgets to signal and loses focus sometime. She said on sept 6 he has doctor appointment she going to ask the doctor to make him do a test. If he doesn’t pass he’ll get his driver license took in away. We are afraid of this action. Hoping his reaction is not bad. They live in the country (rural) so this would change things. Apparently my mother who works in a nursing home says grandpa is at the stage sundowner (dementia) it’s sad to see him slip away.😔