Celebrating Father's Day When Your Dad Has Dementia Can Be Painful
...As with all celebrations at the time, we were pretty much going through the motions. We were not going to stop celebrating this day for fathers just because Dad didn't really understand the significance of it anymore. Mom would ask me to order yellow roses for his room. Yellow roses were something they both treasured (I kept the local florist in business during those years by ordering flowers from each of my parents to the other). I'd also pick up Father's Day cards for him - one for me to give Dad and one for Mom to give him.
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