My mum's (92yo) started yodelling.

[betty swollocks]

My mum was, two years ago, diagnosed with vascular dementia. Her considerable wordpower and vocabulary in english is unchanged, but her reasoning and short-term memory is shot. The latest development is that she's started sprinkling her conversation with occasional words of german, malay and swahili and yodels. It certainly keeps the staff at the care home on their toes: and me! In her youth, she was in the army and travelled to many countries. Never went to Switzerland though. Yodel ayeeedeee...

 

[Levo-Lon]

We have a similar resident..tho his favorite sound is POP.
I say to him every day.. "How are you today". He usually replies Bloody Awful POP..
Bless him

 

[lutonloony]

Whilst sympathising with regard to the dementia, the yodelling concept certainly brought a chuckle

 

[gaijintendo]

I wouldn't be too unhappy with my last words being a Yodel or some Mongolian throat singing. The people in the next room might not be so keen.

It's so strange watching your parents start to change. At this point I'm totally confused about what to do to not burden my children in my dotage. I can't decide whether I should start smoking 20+ a day (grandad bowed out early this way, bad last couple of years) or do sudoku and cut out red meat or whatever they suggest...

Thanks for sharing. Enjoyed the image!

 

[betty swollocks]

Funny how the brain works. Mum can still make (to me at any rate) great, sophicated jokes involving wordplay. A few weeks back, she pointed to one of her care workers and commented, "That's Tamara: I don't see her very often because she's here today and gone tamara."