Click to play videoNew Delhi: World Alzheimer's Day falls on September 21 and medical science is yet to come up with a cure till date for the disease.
CNN-IBN brings you the story of a daughter who recalls how the disease affected her father and changed their lives.
"It was painful to see him like that... he forgot his own daughter," recalls Humra Quraishi.
Humra only remembers her father suffering from Alzheimer's. At the age of 60 years her father Ikhtedar Ali Khan developed Alzheimer's disease and passed way in 1996. During those seven years he was entirely dependent on his wife.
She is the one who looked father him... bathe him, fed him. Earlier he had become little aggressive. He wouldn't like anybody to change his cloths, shave him. But them my mother handled him.
"Life just changed completely. He couldn't remember a thing, not even who he was. He didn't remember how to eat, sit, sleep," she says.
For Humra's family life completely changed.
"It was very painful. In fact very depressing because my father was very fond of tennis, driving... he was an engineer by profession. He used to travel a lot and take us along. Suddenly this entire thing changed because he wouldn't know who we are," she says.
Experts estimate that five per cent of the elderly suffer from this most common form of dementia. Close to 90 per cent of the brain cells die... leaving the person with deteriorating memory, loss of comprehension Humra says the only way is love and care.
"Give them as much love as possible… a lot of care at home and just feel that he is wanted," she adds.
Medical science is trying its best to provide answers to this problem but until that happens if someone close to you forgets you, makes sure you don't forget them.
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