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[quote=Anonymous]I agree that dementia does a number on a persons ability to do pretty much anything with technology.  My mom can still make calls (shockingly) but struggles with answering calls and can’t call anyone not in her favorites.  I don’t have the answer aside from you calling your loved one when you think they’ll be by the phone.  You can’t rely on them to call you.  It’s so hard for the person, they can be quite embarrassed by their diminished mental state (and in my experience they are well aware of the decline).

We’ve lost texting, changing the thermostat, changing channels or volume on the TV (TV stays on one channel and my mom still knows how to turn that on and off).  She can’t use the key fob to open her apartment door.  She also doesn’t have many executive functioning skills left- if she’s hot or cold she doesn’t understand what steps she needs to take to remedy that, even something like taking off a layer or putting a layer on.  This disease really is the worst.[/quote]

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