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My father in law has been diagnosed with Dementia - he is in the intial stages of this mental disorder.
To most people dementia is something that old people get due to their age - so forgetfulness is one of those things we associate with it ( Ijaz Butt is an example !)
In actuality, this is a disease like any other. My father in law, for example, will ask the day of the week about 10 times in the day - he will look at my son and say "yeh kon hai" etc - a little funny at the time but we understand that these are the initial stages.
Obviously places stress on the family but this is something we need to face.
Inshallah we will help him through this - its saddening to see an ex engineer slowly losing his edge in front of our eyes but thats what ALLAH has planned for him - thats what will happen.
May ALLAH help us look after our parents in their old age and protect them from such problems - Ameen.
Below are some stats on Dementia - if you know someone or have a parent with this problem - you are not alone.
To most people dementia is something that old people get due to their age - so forgetfulness is one of those things we associate with it ( Ijaz Butt is an example !)
In actuality, this is a disease like any other. My father in law, for example, will ask the day of the week about 10 times in the day - he will look at my son and say "yeh kon hai" etc - a little funny at the time but we understand that these are the initial stages.
Obviously places stress on the family but this is something we need to face.
Inshallah we will help him through this - its saddening to see an ex engineer slowly losing his edge in front of our eyes but thats what ALLAH has planned for him - thats what will happen.
May ALLAH help us look after our parents in their old age and protect them from such problems - Ameen.
Below are some stats on Dementia - if you know someone or have a parent with this problem - you are not alone.
Statistics
•There are currently 700,000 people with dementia in the UK.
•There are currently 15,000 younger people with dementia in the UK.
•There are over 11,500 people with dementia from black and minority ethnic groups in the UK.
•There will be over a million people with dementia by 2025.
•Two thirds of people with dementia are women.
•The proportion of people with dementia doubles for every 5 year age group.
•One third of people over 95 have dementia.
•60,000 deaths a year are directly attributable to dementia.
•Delaying the onset of dementia by 5 years would reduce deaths directly attributable to dementia by 30,000 a year.
•The financial cost of dementia to the UK is over £17 billion a year.
•Family carers of people with dementia save the UK over £6 billion a year.
•64% of people living in care homes have a form of dementia.
•Two thirds of people with dementia live in the community while one third live in a care home.