Every Saturday Marnix Peeters, an interviewer and reporter at this newspaper for many years, looks at things very clearly as a columnist. This time he talks about Alzheimer’s, the disease that first affected his mother and now his father. “’She sometimes repeats something,’ he said at the time, even though she no longer knew her own name. Now he’s mixing things up himself and creating a fresh, acceptable, livable reality for himself.”
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COLUMN. “They always exaggerate Alzheimer’s,” my father said about my mother’s grueling years. Now he looks away again, in order to survive himself.”
