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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok a few things.  She sounds like she is doing a lot.  Working, grieving, child living at home, hosting large family gatherings, etc.  She also may have some hearing loss and just general getting older issues.

With my mom there were alarming signs like getting lost trying to drive home from church which she had done for 40+ years.  Finding her phone in the fridge.  Those sorts of things which were eye opening.[/quote]

She put her dentures in the China cabinet during Christmas two years ago. She took them out and was putting away something and we couldn’t find them for weeks. She called me crying because my dad said she’s always forgetting things and said if she has dementia to put her in a home. I just thought that was absentmindedly putting them in wrong place so I wasn’t worried and told her that. [/quote]

Now this--in combination with your brother being concerned--strikes me as a much bigger deal, OP. Not just losing the dentures, but the fact that your dad basically had this assessment of her at the time. It sounds like he may have been a real douche, but that doesn't mean necessarily mean he had no perceptive abilities. [/quote]

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