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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.
Work begins on new £850k respite centre for carers
WORK has begun on a new respite centre for people with disabilities and their families in Burton.
The Mail reported last month how Staffordshire County Council planned to build the five-bedroom centre in Hawthorn Crescent, Stapenhill.
It will replace the existing Stretton Edge centre, in Hillfield Lane, and will offer high quality, wheelchair accessible accommodation.
Staffordshire County Council said the £850,000 centre would focus on ‘dignity and respect for each individual and the highest quality service’, while providing a vital break for carers.
Andrew Clarke, whose 36-year-old son has Down’s Syndrome, is one of the carers involved in the project.
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.
