--- title: When Grandma and Grandad need more help — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «When Grandma and Grandad need more help», a lesson of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: As people grow very old, their bodies and sometimes their minds get weaker, and they need more help with everyday things like w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / When Grandma and Grandad need more help # When Grandma and Grandad need more help Lesson 23 of the adult life course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/0/) — As people grow very old, their bodies and sometimes their minds get weaker, and they need more help with everyday things like walking, washing, meals and medicine. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/1/) — Some illnesses in old age never go away; doctors call them chronic, and they can be controlled but not cured. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/3/) — Families have hard choices to make: a carer at home, a care home, or looking after Grandma themselves. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/4/) — They may feel guilty, tired or argue about it. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/5/) — When an old person gets confused or calls you the wrong name, it is the illness, not a lack of love. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/6/) — A chronic condition is an illness that lasts a long time or for life, like arthritis, asthma or heart disease; it can often be controlled but not cured. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/7/) — Diabetes means the body cannot control the sugar in the blood properly; a small machine measures blood sugar from a drop of blood from the finger. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/8/) — Diabetes is not caused by eating one too many sweets, and with care people with diabetes live normal lives. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/9/) — With age, muscles weaken and balance gets worse, so older people may wobble, shuffle, or use a stick or a frame. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/10/) — A fall is much more serious for an old person because their bones are thinner and break more easily; "kept her in" means she had to stay in hospital. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/11/) — A care home is a place where older people live with staff who help them wash, dress, eat and take medicine, day and night. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/12/) — A carer is someone paid to help a person with everyday things like getting up, washing and meals, so they can stay in their own home. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/13/) — Many grown-ups become unpaid carers for their own parents, helping with medicine and meals, which can leave them tired and stressed. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/14/) — Dementia is an illness of the brain, more common in old age, that slowly damages memory and thinking; it gets worse over time and there is no cure yet. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/15/) — A person with dementia may mix up names or think it is years ago; correcting them sharply can upset them. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/16/) — Forgetting a name now and then, "on the tip of my tongue", is completely normal at any age and is not dementia. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/17/) — "She's not herself" means someone is behaving differently than usual, from illness, worry, grief or medicine; grown-ups say it to be kind and private. - ← previous: [Sore backs, glasses and feeling low](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/) - next →: [When someone dies](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/) - ↑ back to [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/)