I Hope A Cure For Alzheimers Is Found In My Lifetime

I hope so. I really hate this disease, it's the worst in existence. I think it's one of the few diseases that's worse for the people around, although it doesn't cause physical pain for the patient it causes all kinds of pain for friends and relatives of the sufferer as they watch their loved relative slowly fade away into a hollow she'll of their former selves. I was singing at a dementia care home and this poor man started crying, saying how he hadn't seen his parents for 4 weeks. Obviously his parents are long since dead, so I think in his mind he has been taken back to being evacuated into the countryside (during WW2) and that's where and when he thought he was. It's heart breaking to see all of these elderly people reduced to a childlike state. They're like overgrown orphans, and there's nothing you can do or say to comfort them or help them.