Dominica Yang started noticing changes in her mother’s behaviour in 2012.
“Mum had a sharp mind, but one day while preparing dad’s medication, she insisted on emptying the tablets from each packet and became obsessed with counting them. She kept losing count, which made her angry and frustrated,” says Yang, a Hongkonger, of her usually kind and gentle mother.
As the days and months went on, Alzheimer’s disease – a type of dementia that affects memory, thinking and behaviour – tightened its grip.
“It came very suddenly and very dramatically, like a big cliff drop,” she says.
