I lost my mom to Alzheimer's nearly two years ago.
Get medical advice at once. Do not delay getting the patient into a facility that can properly take care of them. People tend to wait too long in many cases.
The people at the care unit were extremely kind to my mother. I could not have done nearly as good a job as they did. Plus she was safely locked in so she could not wander.
It's a bad deal, but it does give the rest of us time to adjust to the loss. And once in a while it has its genuinely tender or funny moments. One day I went to visit, and Mom was aghast. She had looked in the mirror and had discovered that she was old.
