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Matthias Koch

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The Hard Decision Of Moving A Family Member To An Alzheimer's Care Home
Location: France
Nationality: German
Biography: Matthias Koch is an artist and photographer originally from Germany. He lived and worked in Chile, Venezuela, Mexico and currently established his basecamp in the South of France. His work is based on intimate questions related to absence, memory... MORE
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The Hard Decision Of Moving A Family Member To An Alzheimer's Care Home
Copyright Matthias Koch 2024
Updated Dec 2020
Location Aubenas
Topics Abandonment, Aging, Art, Black and White, Disability, Dying/Death, Editorial, Essays, Feature, Illness, Isolation, Loss, Personal, Photography, Photojournalism, Portraiture
Summary
Alzheimer, A story a lot of families have to go through. One day it just becomes impossible to continue to stay at home. It is the memory. We do not live any more in the same time. Taking care becomes a burden. One day much too difficult. Leaving home, the only exit.
As caring for the elderly becomes a burden, the realization of having to move a love one into a retirement home is a difficult decision for many families.

In 2015, there were approximately 48 million people worldwide with Alzheimer’s disease. It most often begins in people over 65 years of age, although 4% to 5% of cases are early-onset Alzheimer’s which begin in an earlier age. Alzheimer’s disease affects about 6% of people over 65.

The images documents the very painful time when my father in law had to move to a retirement home for Alzheimer’s patients, leaving the house in his home village where he had spent 87 years.

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A story a lot of families have to go through. One day it just becomes impossible to continue to stay at home. It is the memory. We do not live any more in the same time. Taking care becomes a burden. One day much to difficult. Leaving home, the...

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