What my father-in-law’s illness taught me about being honest about our health

What my father-in-law’s illness taught me about being honest about our health

From September 2022 until his death in August 2025, my father-in-law lived in an Alzheimer’s care facility. We had moved him from Lakewood, Washington, where he’d lived and worked for over a decade after his retirement as a full colonel with 30 years’ service in the United States Air Force as a psychologist. His friends had become more alarmed at his memory lapses and confusion, worrying it was more than natural cognitive decline. With no family…