--Apple-Mail-6BE30CD7-16C3-4882-B8E8-1DC5D9E3DD8B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Great. Thanks Marie Christine.=20 Take it away Mark.=20 Best, Timothy Thomas Home Care Assistance 514-907-5065 www.HomeCareAssistanceMontreal.ca > On Sep 11, 2018, at 3:44 PM, Marie Christine Le Bourdais wrote: >=20 > Hi! > =20 > Here=E2=80=99s the first caregiver that accepted to do the interview for H= ome Care Magazine! She already did a summary of her situation for another pr= oject, you can read it below (it=E2=80=99s in English but she is a francopho= ne). 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 > =C2=ABMy family is composed of my father, Philippe, 84, my brother Bruno, 5= 4, 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, twic= e he thought his car had been stolen and called the police, when, in fact, h= e had just forgotten where he had parked it. He also ran to the police stati= on one day to inform them that he was victim of spying after a man at the bu= s stop asked him many questions about himself, including his address. "He ha= d a wire coming down his leg, so I am sure he had a microphone to record wha= t I was saying. I am afraid he will break into my house,=E2=80=9D he told th= e police, my brother, and I. > =20 > We consulted a neurologist in 2011 and the diagnostic was frontotemporal d= ementia. With my father living alone, I started to act as his primary caregi= ver, 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 w= ith the person with dementia represents a volunteering job of at least 15 ho= urs a week. I was taking my father to all his medical appointments and outin= gs (including the opera!), doing his groceries, cooking, cleaning, washing h= is 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 fe= deral!), and generally organizing his life. My father gave singing lessons a= t his home for 50 years and, until December 2016, I was coordinating his cla= sses, contacting his students, being at his house when they would arrive, et= c. Because we were the security company=E2=80=99s emergency contacts, my bro= ther and I would also regularly rush to his home when the alarm would sound t= o check if there was a thief or if, as usual, my father had forgotten his pa= ssword or left the door open. Many times we would enter his home and were gr= eeted by a burning smell from a pan on the stove or his toaster oven still s= witched on. Living alone at home was becoming dangerous for him. > =20 > After about 4 years of this strain,