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[quote=Anonymous]There’s not much you can do unless she wants to/will agree to see a doctor. Even then, there’s really not much doctors can do either. It might be helpful to you to hear what a doctor has to say so you can better understand how to help your mom. Unfortunately there’s really not much to be done about dementia though. There are some medications that generally don’t help much. There are mental agility type “exercises” you can do that may be of some use but generally don’t help that much. Unfortunately it’s something that can’t be mitigated all that much even if you recognize/treat it early on. I don’t mean to sound pessimistic but we’ve been through dementia w my MIL for the past 5 years and we’ve tried a lot of things and met w a lot of doctors.

Making sure you or her other caregivers are getting lots of support is important. Understanding the various medications is important. Having a plan of what to do if the situation worsens (my MIL eventually had angry, violent outbursts and needed to be hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital bc of this) is important. [/quote]

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