Dementia/I think mother has it

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I'm told to just agree with her on anything.
She get's dates wrong on everything . She thinks to Canada in 1978 I was in 10th grade I didn't go to my senior year-80-81 when Reagan was shot.


Know one would listen to me if I came out and said something.:twocents:
 
Sorry to hear about your Mum. Has she seen a Doctor at all? They do like date tests etc to asses if a patient has dementia. Try and persuade her to visit a Doctor, it may not even be that but something else.
 
My mother wouldn't listen to me .She's in another state Arkansas.

I think her attorney is going to take her for all she has to but I could careless.

I talked to one sister about her and she was just agree with her. I was humiliated in front of my family over thanksgiving don't if she's ripped off.
 
My Dad had dementia and he would ask me things like "Where's your Mom. Did she go to the store?" Then I had the choice of explaining to him that Mom died 25 years earlier and watching him relive the pain of her death or to just say, "Yep, she went to the store" and change the subject.

It was not easy. You have my heartfelt sympathy.
 
Silent Seizures May Cause Alzheimer's Dementia:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/silent-seizures-may-cause-alzheimers/

My dad was diagnosed with dementia. I've seen the expression of fear wash over his face suddenly and then watched him turn spacy...his thumbs are always doing what mine did during a simple partial. Still, his doctor claims it's dementia, and my sister who takes care of him swallows it whole.

My hunch? Hard-to-detect seizures cause dementia. But something causes the seizures, perhaps a bug?
 
As I understand it dementia is the umbrella term for the end result of diminished mental capacity. How a person got there is the different types of dementia. E.g. Alzheimers is one type, vascular dementia is another (strokes), perhaps seizures are another cause. Interesting article. Thanks for posting that.
 
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