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The Impact of Technology
Grandpa’s Dementia And Your Bitcoins.
We could save hundreds of thousands of lives if we would talk about technology in our families. How? And even more important: why nobody cares?
In the last months of my grandfather’s life, he took more than 29 pills daily. Tinnitus. Rheumatism. Severe depression. Diabetes. And the worst: Alzheimer's.
An orchestra full of pain, disconnected moments, today’s family anecdotes that are still both painful and somehow far away.
Where does torture begin? How much is still there of a human being when he just sits and stares and keeps silent?
When he cries quietly and writes the names of the family members on a piece of paper to remember? When he refuses to take horrible pills from even more horrible strangers, not knowing that it is us who are sitting in front of him?