I think it's a great commercial, our memories are an important part of our lives and make us who we are when you lose them you lose part of yourself. I have a stock Model A and used to belong to a vintage car club and we would take the cars to nursing homes and it was amazing to watch the old people light up and talk about the past, My wife is retired and does activities at assisted living and is always sad when one of the senior citizens is moved to memory care. It's tough on the families since they basically lose the family member while they are still there.
Thank you for sharing the commercial! Very touching and a nice follow up to their commercial last year where grandpa’s Chevy was restored.
Excellent commercial that really hit home for me. We lost our brother to Picks Disease (Frontotemporal Dementia) which is an early form of dementia that can affect people around 40-70 years of age. Ralph was a few years older than me. We were very close growing up and shared along with our Families a love for building and driving our street rods. Ralph got diagnosed in his early 60's and never got to enjoy any retirement spending his last years in a nursing home. As the disease progressed Ralphs short-term memory was mostly non-existent. I often spent time with him and would bring old 50's and 60's pictures of Family and us when we were kids. His response with his long-term memory was amazing. We were able to communicate about Family in the pictures who had passed, he could identify the year and make of our Grandmothers 54 and 56 Chevies and mostly we were both able to smile. Sadly if I visited the next day, he had no relocation of our previous visit. Toward the end it got harder to communicate. I always respected my Brothers advice and his situation taught me one last thing. When I turned 62, I retired. I wrote an Essay in our local paper called "Solice in Understanding" after seeing a similar situation with a young Mother with the same disease. This entire experience was a hard learning situation with so many unknowns about the disease. We now are hearing more about this disease. I had a friend in our car club that started acting as my Brother did. Shortly after I learned he had more similar incidents and ended up in a Nursing home with Picks Disease where he later passed. My advice to anyone who has a Family member with Dementia, don't try to change the present, focus on the past with discussion and memories with old pictures. Embrace the good days and simply enjoy the time that is left.
This really hits home for me with losing my FIL to Alzheimer’s and dementia and before he had to go to a nursing home we were able to have a big family Christmas one last time. He was a WW2 veteran and could tell you stories about what he did and tons of long term memories and experiences but short term wasn’t there. I can’t tell you how many times I heard the same story over and over again but every time I would listen and act like I had never heard it before. He was 96 when he passed away peacefully. Now my wife is starting to forget about things that she just said or done off and on but I’m hoping that it’s just all the meds that she has to take after beating cancer last year. But in the back of my head I can’t help but wonder if it’s early signs of Alzheimer’s. This just reminds me that we should always cherish the time that we have with our family and friends because you never know what will happen later in life.
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