This is a multipart message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0376_01D449F1.D5A62B10 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0377_01D449F1.D5A62B10" ------=_NextPart_001_0377_01D449F1.D5A62B10 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This is great! Cheryl and I will get together on this in the morning and = set up the interview as soon as Anne Marie is available. =20 We will keep you posted. =20 =20 Mark =20 =20 Mark Dickie | Partner, Digital Marketer m: 613-608-9646 o: 613-692-0345 e: mark@20eight.ca www.20eight.ca = = =20 =20 =20 From: Timothy Thomas =20 Sent: September 11, 2018 5:01 PM To: Marie Christine Le Bourdais Cc: Mark Dickie ; Tim Thomas = ; C Plus Subject: Re: Alzheimer's Society / Home Care Assistance Conf Call =20 Great. Thanks Marie Christine.=20 =20 Take it away Mark.=20 =20 Best, Timothy Thomas Home Care Assistance 514-907-5065 =20 www.HomeCareAssistanceMontreal.ca = =20 On Sep 11, 2018, at 3:44 PM, Marie Christine Le Bourdais = > wrote: Hi! =20 Here=E2=80=99s the first caregiver that accepted to do the interview for = Home Care Magazine! She already did a summary of her situation for = another project, you can read it below (it=E2=80=99s in English but she = is a francophone). Here=E2=80=99s also her contact information: =20 Anne Marie Parent T=C3=A9l.: 514 381-0745 Cell.: 438 863-1673 am-parent@videotron.ca =20 =20 =C2=ABMy family is composed of my father, Philippe, 84, my brother = Bruno, 54, himself a father of 3, and me, Anne Marie, 56. Our mother = left us in 2004. My father stayed in their home until 2015. Since 2010, = Bruno and I noticed he was getting a bit confused and was sometimes = paranoid. For example, twice he thought his car had been stolen and = called the police, when, in fact, he had just forgotten where he had = parked it. He also ran to the police station one day to inform them that = he was victim of spying after a man at the bus stop asked him many = questions about himself, including his address. "He had a wire coming = down his leg, so I am sure he had a microphone to record what I was = saying. I am afraid he will break into my house,=E2=80=9D he told the = police, my brother, and I. =20 We consulted a neurologist in 2011 and the diagnostic was frontotemporal = dementia. With my father living alone, I started to act as his primary = caregiver, more than my brother who was busy with his own family (three = teenagers!). I live closer to my Dad's, too. Being a caregiver when one = doesn't live with the person with dementia represents a volunteering job = of at least 15 hours a week. I was taking my father to all his medical = appointments and outings (including the opera!), doing his groceries, = cooking, cleaning, washing his clothes, taking care of all his bills... = even doing what I hate the most: his two income tax declarations (yes = two, in Qu=C3=A9bec: provincial and federal!), and generally organizing = his life. My father