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[quote=Anonymous]Denial is actually one of the earliest signs of cognitive issues.  You have to be a very determined person to be aware of the possibility of Alzheimer's and then want to do something about it.  By age 85, 50% of people have it but there is no routine testing, the only illness treated through complete avoidance.  You will find people will eagerly go for all kinds of bloodwork, mammograms etc. etc. but when it comes to the brain, people shut down.

I take the SAGE test from the University of Ohio, every six months, started at age 55, and will go to Switzerland to be "put down" if I get it.  I refuse to be in denial, refuse to be a caregiver, refuse to be a burden and refuse to spend my lifetime's assets on "care" AKA dumping on low-status women who have to look after elderly people with this illness.

I'm also considered "very strange" to be so proactive.  If you ask your mother to take the SAGE test and she refuses, it's very likely that she has early stage dementia.      [/quote]

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