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Now in his fifth year of dementia, 86-year-old Leonard Winakur doesn't know what day it is.
If he's not sleeping when his son Dr. Jerald Winakur drops by for a visit (as Dr. Winakur does nearly every day), sometimes he'll engage his son in superficial conversation.
Other times he's abrasive and says things like "You ought to come around more often" or "You're not my son."
"As my brother Michael says, he thinks it's always a good visit when he can get my father to laugh," said Dr. Winakur, who practices internal medicine and geriatrics in San Antonio. "We're able to do that on occasion."
Even though Leonard's dementia and physical ...
Source: HighBeam Research, The challenges of caring for an aging parent.(THE REST OF YOUR...