When your loved one has Alzheimer's

Virginia Gathui with her mother Rachel Gathui has Alzheimer's is a progressive disease,memory loss and remembering recent events (short-term memory loss).Individuals lose the ability to carry on a conversation and respond to their environment and it is common with elderly people at age of 65 years.PHOTO BY EDWARD KIPLIMO.

When Virginia Githui received a call that her mother, Rachel Githui - who used to run a shop in town, was seen waiting outside it she did not think much about it.

Virginia knew that her mother was to meet up with her friends to make a trip to Eastleigh and so she figured that they were yet to meet. However, when she called her mother’s friends, they informed her they had met up with Rachel but that she had disappeared.