Parts of Mr Goh’s experience mirror that of Mr Mark Chin, who has also cared for two people with dementia at the same time.
He took more than a year to overcome the physical and mental struggles of being a caregiver.
In 2020, he became the sole caregiver to his father-in-law, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Two years later, his mother-in-law was told she had vascular dementia.
“This overlapping between my father-in-law and my mother-in-law, that was the most difficult period, and was very, very different in terms of a learning curve,” he said, as his in-laws had different forms of dementia alongside other medical conditions.
For him, one of the biggest struggles transitioning from work life to caregiving was learning to change diapers.
