Swimmer Maaike de Waard shares her grief about her mother who has Alzheimer’s: ‘I am getting her a little more and more’

September 21 was just a day for Maaike de Waard for years as all the others. But that changed in the summer of 2024. Her mother Bep was not herself for a long time. More and more often she was confused, she forgot big and small things. A year ago she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 66. On Sunday, extra attention is paid worldwide to this radical brain disease. “It feels like we always have to say goodbye to what used to be.”

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