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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mom has early onset dementia and this does not sound like the symptoms. They are usually not depressive, personality may be weird but they are oddly happy in their embarrassingly weird way. For example a person with early onset will talk to strangers like they know them, put on weird outfits..that sort of thing. They also tend to eat a lot because they forgot they ate 10 minutes ago and so weight issues can be a problem. Look up frontal temporal dementia and you can see the signs. Your MIL actually sounds depressed and like she has given up. This is sad. But at least looks like their could be hope which is great. No hope for early onset:([/quote]

It sounds like my MIL.  We initially attributed it for years to depression because she had a history of it.  It was clearly dementia.  She had no weird outfits, talking with strangers. She did have a lot of eating issues.

There is a clinic at Hopkins that specializes in Dementia.  We did not find them helpful but already knew but you may want to take her there for an assessment.[/quote]

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