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[quote=Anonymous]My mother, 72, has become a bit of a sedentary agoraphobic, and has always suffered with anxiety. I chalked up these things to her gradual change in behavior. Things like, she’s very rigid with her schedule and not adaptable to change, seems like she could be prone to elderly scans (thankfully she still calls for advice), and occasionally forgetting concepts she once knew, but THAT is the part that’s now concerning me a lot after two phone calls we had this week.

I’ve noticed her forgetting things intermittently, but figured she doesn’t stimulate her mind and is probably just declining. But this week, she forgot public defenders were a thing, and was even confused when I reminded her how it works. (She’s always been a true crime fan and we were discussing a case she’s following.) Then she forgot another thing related to a hobby she once engaged in for years. I’m sensing something may not be right, and all the other things are related.

Is dementia a catch all phrase for normal cognitive decline? Or is this a separate thing? What about Alzheimer’s? She knows people (and how everyone wronged her) to a fault, knows dates, places. But it just jarred me how she forgot those two seemingly simple things. What could I be dealing with here?[/quote]

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