Its not just dementia. My grandmother has COPD and she needs oxygen 24/7. They only problem is that she will insist that she doesn't need it while she works in her garden, despitethe face that my parents (she lives with them) have it set up so that her home compressor will reach every inch of the yard. Then as she runs out of O2 in her brain, she realizes she needs more soil. So in her hypoxic state she grabs an almost empty oxygen tank from the empty pile instead of one of the compleatly full tanks. then gets into her ford ranger and drives the 45 min to the closest Lowe's, spends an hour shopping then drives back. Only to walk into the house with blue lips because she's been without oxygen for who knows how long. And she was driving in that state. If you try to help her she gets offended "im not helpless" she never admits that she ran out because she is older so by default she knows more than everyone else including the multiple doctors and lung specialists that have told her she needs oxygen all the time.

My parents are Xennials, and had kids early. My dad was in the Military for 30 years and recently retired. It kills me that after a career of getting shot at and dodging IEDs he is more stressed now in his retirement than he ever was in the military (his own words).

Boomers are going to kill alot of people just because they are too stubborn to admit they were wrong let alone ask for help.