“When the doctor said dementia, mother looked right at me and said, 'That's bad, isn't it?'" Woodward Veney recalled. “My great-grandmother lived to be 106, so it was terrifying for my mother to be diagnosed with this at 77," Woodward Veney said. “My mother wouldn't even go out to breakfast or lunch on tai-chi days because she was afraid there might be traffic and she'd miss her class."Īt that point, Woodward Veney and her sister took their mother to a neurologist six months later, she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, which is one form of dementia. “I called her one Tuesday and she had forgotten to go, which was so unusual," Woodward Veney, 61, told me recently. Then one day in 2006, Woodward missed her all-time favorite activity, tai-chi, which she attended twice a week down the hall from her apartment. All the women in her family lived to a ripe old age, and her mother was only 77. Her daughter Loretta Woodward Veney noticed but wasn't alarmed. For Doris Woodward, it started with small things: forgetting her keys and locking herself out of the apartment.
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