ANGELA Reynolds knew her mother’s memory was slipping, but she didn’t realise how bad things had gotten until she started to untangle her mom’s finances: unpaid bills, unusual cash withdrawals, and the discovery that, oddly, the mortgage on the family home had been refinanced at a higher interest rate.
Looking back, Reynolds realises her mother was in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease: “By the time we caught on, it was too late.”
