Hi Linda,
I am so sorry your dad and your whole family had to go through this. My mother-n-law suffered from Alzheimer’s Disease for a few years before she died. She passed away from a cardiac arrest in the nursing home last November.
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Thank you for sharing your experience. I have experience with it too since my husband and I took care of my mother-n-law for a few years before we had to put her in the hospital and then she went to a nursing home until she died. It is hard work but I would do it all over again just to have her back with us.