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[quote=Anonymous]Thanks to everyone for the ideas. I'm interested to see the place he's at. I get the feeling it's more of a group home than a medical facility. Not sure if that makes sense. Street view shows a regular house and when I call they answer with "hello".

My family is calling it "dementia" but it's not progressing like Alzheimers might (I know little about these things, obviously). It's more like brain damage from the stroke than memory loss though.

So that's all to say, I want to get him stuff that he'll know is for him (reason I'm sticking to Harley Davidson stuff) instead of things specifically for a patient with memory loss. When I talk to him he still knows who I am and talks about his situation like he can't figure out why he's there "I'm fine! you gotta get me out of this place, they're a bunch of old crazy people!"He doesn't know that he's unable to take care of himself. It's very sad.

I just want my gifts to be special to him and useful but not imply that I think he's in-need of special things, for respect reasons. He's my uncle after all. Thanks again for all the suggestions. I'll likely make another post about how anxious I am about visiting, I'm already feeling depressed about the whole thing. [/quote]

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