Tag: dementia
The perils of aging generally escalate around 75, and they are becoming more pervasive as more Americans live to very old ages. One of these perils – declining cognitive ability – often creates financial problems. A new study that summarized the research on this side of the retirement equation identified the financial fallout from dementia…
When my grandmother was spirited away by dementia and no longer recognized me, I stopped visiting her in the nursing home. I didn’t understand this at the time but now think that I just wanted to remember her baking lemon cream pies or waving at me as she rode around on her lawnmower cropping t…
