The longer life spans of today combined with women having to work for the most part make it more challenging for people to take care of parents with serious chronic health issues like dementia. My parents, sister and I moved in with our maternal grandparents in the 90s to take care of our wheel-chair bound grandmother who became paralyzed after a stroke. But then my maternal grandfather started developing Alzheimer's Disease over the years. Until his mind was completely fucked. He up and left while my parents weren't home. He ended up walking 30 km and the police found him for us. Since my mom was working and couldn't supervise him 24/7 (it was easier to supervise a wheelchair-bound grandmother), she had to put him in a nursing home.

Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease wasn't really a problem back when humans lived shorter lives because they died from other things. As people live long lives now, our brains break down in ways that they didn't have the opportunity to before. This is also why coronavirus isn't a big problem in sub-Saharan African outside of South Africa which has a bunch of old white Afrikaaners dying of COVID. When the average life expectancy in Nigeria is 54, niggas ain't gonna be dying from COVID.