Alanna Shaikh talks in this lecture about her father and his Alzheimer’s and how she is preparing to get Alzheimer’s herself. We learn that patients of Alzheimer’s find comfort in the familiar, as would be expected as they lose familiarity with the shrinking of the brain, and enjoy doing things that they inherently know how to do, in Alanna’s fathers case it is filling out forms.
We learn how Alanna is teaching herself hobbies and skills that will hopefully help her as she enters Alzheimer’s, making spending time with herself more interesting as she eventually won’t be able to recognize her friends.
Alanna also talks about how her fathers Alzheimer’s didn’t take away from the person that he was before, that he was still loving and still caring. I feel we could flip this on its head, and use our character of the father as still spiteful and mean to his son despite his son taking care of him, having a real clash of morals with the character of the son.
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