Found on the Taiwan Alzheimer’s Disease Association newsletters, translated by me…
The eighty-five year-old Grandma Chen would head to the SAME grocery store to buy soy sauce, she’d already accumulated over dozens of bottles of soy sauce at home, it’d, troubled her loved ones. And so, the family made a deal with the grocery shop owner, that if the elderly woman buys the repeated items, the members of the family can take the items back unused, and trade them in for other items of equal value. The shop owner empathized with the family members hardship in caring for the demented elderly woman, and agreed to help them out.
It’s ordinary tales like this, that keeps us in believing, there are, still a lot of goodness in this world, and that it takes the understanding from the shop owners like this one to help with the looking after of the demented elderly in the population, after all, dementia is NOT just the problems of the individual families, it’s the problem that will keep on impacting the societies as a whole.
Mr. Huang, who’s retired, is the sole caretaker of his eighty-five year-old demented mother, his mother is still very mobile, and would go out a lot, had been lost many times already. Mr. Huang asked help from the shop owners locally, that if they see his mother out alone, that they can help by having her stay, and giving her something to eat, and later, Mr. Huang will come and pay for it. At the same time, he’d asked the shop owners to notify him, so he can get his mother home with him.
And so, this still just shows, how everybody around is willing to help out, so long as you ASK them to, and, because the mother of this man is still quite mobilized, she runs the risks of wandering off a lot, and the man had, asked for help from the local shop owners to, help keep his mother in one place, so he can go and pick her up.