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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mother lied in the earlier stages to try to hide her capacity. Overstating what she could do, blaming others for things to cover up her forgetfulness, etc.  It was an effort to facilitate her own denial and stress and in some areas she believed her own lies (ie insisting my dad or I changed computer settings and passwords instead of admitting she could not remember how to use it).[/quote]

They aren't lying or in denial.  Because of the memory issues they don't understand what is going on or what they are being told (i.e. doctors).[/quote]

That may be true for some people, but my mother actually was  dealing with both in the early stages. She knew she was declining and was terrified and upset, because her father had Alzheimer’s.  She would cry about it and confide to my father how afraid she was. To me that was the one of the saddest aspects  — her retention of awareness that she was experiencing cognitive decline, for a long time.  [/quote]

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