Three Daughters Battle Alzheimer’s and the Healthcare System….. By Bob DeMarco Alzheimer’s Reading Room Angil Tarach-Ritchey wrote about earlier about Living Alone with Dementia. She wonders who is going to take care of all the people suffering from Alzheimer’s and dementia that don’t have anyone. Or who have uncaring children. Jennifer Petersen, joined by other family members, sits with photographs of her parents in happier times. Richard Petersen, her father, has Alzheimer’s and is in detention with pneumonia. This story is about three daughters who care — Jennifer and Jodi Petersen, and Kristin Schmidt. On one hand this story is wonderful, this Dad has three daughters that care. They want to help him. On other hand it is horrific. As Jodi Petersen says, “Nobody wants our dad” Richard Petersen, the Dad of these three wonderful women, suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. Through no fault of his own, Richard is mean. Because he is hard to deal with, nobody wants him. Only the few understand that dementia is a medical condition, not a psychiatric condition. When Alzheimer’s patients are mean they usually end up locked up in a county psychiatric facility or similar institution. These patients are consider to be dangerous to themselves and every one around them. Usually they end up on anti-psychotic drugs.

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