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Tragedy of mother, 104, taking care of her daughter, 87, who suffers from dementia
- Garcia starts and ends every day by asking where her mother is
- Albert Garcia described relationship between his mother and grandmother as ‘spiritual ping-pong match’
- Rosario Schielzeth and her daughter Maria Garcia play six rounds of Bingo every night
- Mother and daughter love movies and recently watched Happy Feet 2 in 3D
- When Garcia was briefly married in the 1950s, she lived across the street from her mother
PUBLISHED: 21:02, 18 June 2012 | UPDATED: 11:32, 19 June 2012
Eternal bond: Rosario Schielzeth (rear) and Maria Garcia (front) pictured together in their Sarasota, Florida, home a few days after Schielzeth’s 104th birthday
Children caring for parents in their old age is nothing new, but Rosario Schielzeth and Maria Garcia have turned the old formula upside-down as it is the 104-year-old mother who is looking after her dementia-plagued 87-year-old daughter.
The two women from Sarasota, Florida, have been inseparable for decades. Even when Garcia was married for five years in the 1950s and had her own home, it was across the street from her mom.
‘Literally, these two ladies have been together all their lives,’ said Albert Garcia, Maria’s 60-year-old son. ‘It’s a spiritual ping-pong match between both of them and that’s what keeps them going and alive.’
Garcia’s children are all grown up, with families and children of their own, and nowadays she relies more than ever on her centenarian mother for companionship.
Alzheimer’s gene ‘diabetes link’
Scientists say they have identified a possible genetic link between diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease.
It has been known for some time that people with diabetes have a much higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s, but not why this is so.
Now US researchers writing in Genetics say a study of worms has indicated a known Alzheimer’s gene also plays a role in the way insulin is processed.
Dementia experts said more work in humans was now needed.
Cash strapped councils strip £900m from elderly care
Elderly and disabled care budgets have been slashed by £900 million this year alone as local councils struggle to balance the books, social services chiefs have disclosed.
Almost £2 billion less is now being spent on care for vulnerable older or disabled people than just two years ago as nationwide cuts to reduce the deficit take effect.
Social services chiefs said the figures showed there was now a “desperate need” for politicians of all political parties urgently to agree a solution to the looming crisis in care for the elderly to cope with Britain’s ageing population.
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