A version of this article was first published on mws.sg on 31 October 2022.
In the months following his father-in-law’s death, Mr Lim Kay Kwong began noticing signs of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease in his wife Betty Pay.
“My wife started to have episodes of aggression and anger after losing her father in 2016. She would get upset or angry easily, and behaved completely different from the mild-mannered woman she used to be. She also suffered from severe memory loss, and couldn’t recognise her children at times,” said Mr Lim.
The couple have two children who are married and no longer living with them. In order to care for his wife full-time, Mr Lim had to quit his bus driver job back then.
