People tend to underestimate their ability to adapt to difficult circumstances like an Alzheimer's diagnosis.

“They actually we don't tend to I'm going to speak in a massive generalization but we don't tend to anticipate our ability to adapt very well especially when like the worst case thing is happening and you know sometimes having had familiar you know been intimately involved in this worst case thing you kind of surprise yourself or your kids surprise you know there's there's these things that unfold that you wouldn't have guessed would be a part of the experience.”