The Prospector (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 31, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 20, 1987 Page: 3 of 16
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Alzheimer’s victim cared for ‘like child’
By Pamela Crouch
Lab Reporter
For IS years she ran a day
care center and managed to rear
nine children Now, at 62, she
must be cared for like a child
Lillian Hargrove to the victim
of Alzheimer's Disease
“She began to lose her
memory," said Lilly Hargrove,
24, remembering when her
mother was diagnosed in May
of 1985 as having the disease
after a family trip to Denver
‘‘She did not know where the
was or why she was there,” she
said. " She was vindictive, and
thought we had kidnapped her
We came home much sooner
than expected She was never
normal again "
Once back in El Paso, Lilly
said her mother was put lathe
hospital and subjected to a series
of tests including CAT scans,
spinal taps and bacterial tests,
all which proved negative
"By process of elimination,
Alzheimer's was diagnosed,”
Lilly said "That a the only
way to diagnose the disease "
Alzheimer's is fatal. There is
no known cure far it, and causes
loss of memory and sense of
reality It was discovered by Dr.
Alois Alzheimer in 1904 after
performing an autopay on the
brain of a 51-year-old woman
‘Performing an autopsy is
really the only definite way to
diagnose Alzheimer's,” said
Donald Moss, associate pro-
fessor of psychology at UT EI
Paso Moss is researching the
disease
Moss said the brains of
Alzheimer's victims form
neuro fibulary tangles and a
wary plaque These farm het
»«en the neurons and capillaries
in the brain and cause the brain
to die
"Aluminum has aho been
discovered in the brains of vic-
time it is part of the mechanism
that kill* the brain We are not
exactly Hire how it gets there
but we know simple exposure
(to aluminum) does not cause it
It might be from a nutrient defi-
ciency." Moss Mid
“Alzheimer's victim* do not
get better Once it n diagnosed
it is downhill from there with
life expected to last seven to
eight year* longer "
Lilly Mid when her mother
was diagnosed with
Alzheimer's she was not ex-
pected to outlive summer
‘They told ua to make plans
for her death,'she said "She
was nearly comatose due to the
medication she was on."
Once they moved her mother
to a nursing home and changed
her medication, Lilly Mid
Hargrove was more alert, but
her memory loss remained
"She would call u* constant-
ly on the phone not knowing she
had called us five minute*
earlier." Lilly said. “She
thought one of my brothers He-
ed down the hall from her in the
home ”
After eight months in the mar-
sing home, Hargrove was taken
home to be cared for by her his-
hand This, however, was not
bicane there was improvement
In her condition The family
could no longer afford the nur-
sing home bill
Alzheimer’s is known as the
“disease of the century,” Mow
said, because this is the first
century in which people have
lived king enough to develop it
He added that there are two
types of Alzheimer's Discave.
The most common, late onset,
which affects victims after age
65, and early onset
Moss said the drug he and his
colleagues are developing is
more of a control drug than one
that will cure the disease
"We are trying to find a way
to treat the symptom of demen-
tia and give a better quality of
life and keep the patients on the
job longer," he explained "We
are trying to bolster the function
of memory in the brain "
Morn feels he a getting close
to finding the drug, and a now
ring to the Federal Drug
inistration for permission
to try it on human patients He
hopes to Mart the process in
1987
in the meantime, people who
have already been affected by
the disease are learning to cope.
Of Lilly's nine brothers and
sisters, three of which live in El
Paso, each ha* had their own
reaction to their mother's
disease, mostly one of dental.
"She doc* not remember that
she has nine children anyway
She think* my father a three
different people " Lilly said
The Prospector / January 20, 1987/ Page 3
Faculty member mourned
Jimmy Walker, chairman of
the department of educational
leadership and counseling, col
lapsed and died Ian Tuesday, Ian
13, while playing tennis. He was
57.
The Union Theater was filled
with friends, relatives and col
league* Friday afternoon as they
paid the* law respects to Walker
during a non-denominational
memorial service
Walker “spent his life in the
service of others," said Richard
Albin, professor of religion, who
read the invocation
Walker came to the Universi
ty. then known a* Texas Western
College, from his hometown of
Merkel, Texas, in the fali of 1948
on a football scholarship He
played four seasons and earned
the reputation as one of the most
intellectual athlete* ever to wear
a TWC uniform
President Haskell Monroe,
notified m Austin of Walker*
death said, "It is very sad news
Jimmy Walker was one of our
stalwarts, an excellent teacher
and administrator and a kind,
compassionate and friendly man
He will be sorely missed and
never forgotten "
Walker played on the 1950
Miner Sun Bowl team that
defeated Georgetown University
in 1951, he wa* chosen most
valuable player and All Border
Conference end He set a Miner
season record with 40 pass
receptions
He earned bachelor's and
Jimmy Walker
master's degrees from Texas
Western, served a tour of duty in
the Army and then became a
teacher and coach at Mason High
School in Mason, Texas He
returned to TWC in 1958 as an
assistant professor of health and
physical education
Walker also earned a doctoral
degree in education from
Oklahoma State University.
He wa« TWC dean of men and
dean of students from 1967 to
1971, when he resumed teaching
An expert in adolescent
psychology, leadership *kill* and
personal development. Walker
often donated his time at consul-
tant and counselor to PTA
groups, churches, teacher groups,
police-youth groups and the EI
Paso Mental Health Association
in 1958. he was among 60 pro-
fessional counselors nationwide
chosen to train gerontological
counselors.
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