The joys of dementia

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My father had dementia and passed in January. Extremely difficult illness for everybody. My mom took care of him for 10 years until he fell one day requiring a hospital visit and social services got involved there, not allowing his release back to my mom. They wondered how the heck anybody not a professional could have watched him. He ended up in a Alzheimer home and lived in a community for 3 months. Eventually closed his eyes and stopped eating, referred to as 'end phase', and had brief hospice at the end. Father was in good health his life...good diet, didn't smoke, no diabetes, no heart issues,.....all things he could take care of himself with....but something he had no control over got him. We lived thru it all, the forgetting of names, his odd sleeping hours, took his license to drive away, his behavior, etc. My heart goes out to you dude. I lived close to my parents, closer than my siblings...didn't live there but was with it daily. There's just no good answer except to say it's not his fault