Please hug your dad for me :)
I will, he has Pick’s Disease, it has badly damaged his sense of balance, his speech, his motor control (it is a protein that attacks brain cells, has shrunk his frontal lobe). He has trouble expressing himself, but understands almost everything. We are very close, have always been. He loves for me to start conversation about the past and manages to add to what I remember often. But he cannot express what he thinks.
But he still lives in a spec home he built in 1961 we moved into it in 1962 (now has 2 additions). My home is 3 blocks from his.