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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the doctor is trying to ease you into dementia.  Unless all those issues only showed up post surgery, the odds are there were deficiencies before that the wife covered up.  Unless you see the person every day people do not notice.

I had a neighbour slipping into Alzheimer's and the family was in complete denial.  The signs were there for me to see but they put on blinders and told me I was wrong.    [/quote]

You don't know that, poster.

I am a professional caregiver with over a decade's experience caregiving primarily for elders. I am also an attorney with prior experience doing involuntary commitments of elders with altered cognition from organic sources, which I posted about previously.

Post surgery and general anesthesia is a different experience for elders than for younger healthier patients. They can get their brains scrambled from improper hydration levels, electrolytes out of whack, low grade UTI, etc. I am talking about very pronounced cognitive dysfunction which resembles dementia but which is totally correctable by addressing deficiencies that have developed in the body's functioning in the aftermath of surgery which exacts a more extreme toll on the aged body, especially if the elder is not a very fit person - by very fit I mean consuming a great diet and getting regular physical exercise.

I've lost count now of the patients I have seen mentally addled by organic processes that were corrected once physicians took the time to figure things out. Even chronic vitamin deficiencies can cause altered cognition that mimics dementia.

So, you just don't know.[/quote]

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