![]() Send the demented relative to an expensive nursing home and go broke doing so or keep the patient at home and live progressively more hellish days. She illustrates the wrenching decisions that families face. The story has an important additional element in the form of Marian, played superbly by Olivia Dukakis, whose husband has advanced AD. But, who knows, Canadian senior care may be a lot better. The only thing missing in the film, is the sometimes lackadaisical attention by bored staff you see in real life. From what I understand, she had to deal with her own mother's dementia for about five years. Sarah Polley has clearly spent time visiting such places. Could it be that Fiona what exacting some kind of revenge on Grant past dalliances? The depiction of nursing homes and the commentary about AD is accurate. I had trouble accepting an AD sufferer at the advanced stage of not recognizing a loved one of more than forty years still displaying a keen short-term memory capacity. It is not uncommon at the early stages of AD to think that the person may be pretending. From my, avowedly limited and not professional, experience with AD-afflicted close and distant relatives, numerous visits to a number of nursing homes - from the fancy to the abject - and long hours roaming the often depressing corridors of the wards observing the behavior of old folks whose minds had gone potty, I believe I picked inaccuracies in the behavior of Fiona and her fellow seniors that threw me off. The depiction of dementia through the character of Fiona and other patients around her is good but not excellent. Her husband, Grant, is dejected with their predicament as Fiona is moved to a specialized facility and within it between wards dealing with patients with differing levels of impairment. Julie Christie plays Fiona, a woman whose dementia progresses rather rapidly. This is a story about Alzheimer's Disease (AD), its effect on those who suffer from it, and, principally, the difficulties that it poses for relatives who see their loved one decay mentally before death. ![]()
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