📋 How to Talk to Grandkids About a Grandparent's Dementia (AARP Article)

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📋 How to Talk to Grandkids About a Grandparent's Dementia (AARP Article)

FROM THE ARTICLE: What to Tell Grandkids When a Grandparent Has Dementia.

These strategies can help you explain what is going on to children of all ages.

By Cameron Huddleston, AARP.

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Published February 26, 2025.

Michele Treacy’s children had always been close to their grandmother. They would visit often because she lived just 30 minutes away from them. However, those visits became difficult for Jack and Catie when their grandmother started forgetting who they were about a year before she died in September 2021.

Betty Treacy had been suffering from lung cancer. “As soon as she stopped the chemo, the dementia seemed to accelerate crazy fast with her,” Michele says of her mother-in-law.

USE THE LINK BELOW TO READ THE ARTICLE: https://www.aarp.org/caregiving/home-care/info-2025/talk-to-grandkids-about-dementia.html

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