Early dementia

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:-Getting lost driving a route he had done for decades. Getting lost finding a bathroom at a restaurant they go to every Saturday.
-Needing new info repeated a lot-asking same question multiple times in convo
-abnormal gait…A bit of a shuffle

interesting, my 82yo mom does this too and has dementia. I didn't think much of the shuffle, didn't attribute it to her dementia at all.

[Anonymous]

Looking back the early signs were issues with paying bills, falling for scams, strange financial decisions, losing items constantly , missing appointments and car accidents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My Mother wrote my son a birthday check for One Million Dollars.

Do you think it would’ve cleared if you cashed it?

[Anonymous]

House was crazy hot when we visited and she was wearing a sweater...in the middle of summer.

Food was spiced to an almost inedible amount even though she was well know for her good cooking.

[Anonymous]

Repeating the same story every day with no memory of telling me
Needing repeated lessons with new computer and microwave - simply could not learn