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Re: Unprepared
Thank you all for your kind comments and hugs. They are much needed and I am grateful! I wanted to share one great thing that happened yesterday. I have a CNA a few hours a week so that I can go to t…9 -
Re: Using AI
I just did to research getting rid of a corvette my husband refuses to believe he can no longer drive. It's been 6 months and I have a neighbor that wants to buy it. I researched would he recogn…5 -
Re: Using AI
I used ChatGPT when I put my wife on hospice to ask a lot of questions about how it would affect insurance and what I could and could not do. It also helped drive home the true underlying purpose of …3 -
Re: My Mom passed away October 5th 2025
FYI- you determine who you see this Christmas. If you don’t feel like going to a gathering or dealing with relatives , then don’t go. As people say - No is a complete sentence. I can’t exchange gifts…4 -
Talking To One Who Knows
My dear wife left us in August, 2025. That was when the floodgates of grief were finally opened fully and all that I had been managing for years was allowed to be unleashed. As so many have described…5 -
Knowing doesn't change the losses
I am recently DX'd w/ early onset Alzheimer's (who I call Al, who is friends with my other guy ARThritis). I am a Former Alzheimer's specialist serving as the director of a local Alzhe…4 -
Re: Adolescent Behavior
I don’t have experience with the wise cracks, but the adolescent behavior I can understand. If you notice on the dbat staging tool it actually gives an age equivalence at each stage. My mom once told…5 -
Re: Adolescent Behavior
Dementia can cause arguing like a 12-year-old due to brain changes that impair judgment, communication, and impulse control, leading to frustration, emotional outbursts, paranoia, and a regression to…6 -
Re: Doctor prescribed 2 different medicines at the same time.
@Dbond9007 Hi and welcome. I am sorry for your reason to be here but pleased you found this place. A couple of thought, in what stage would you consider your mom to be in terms of disease progression…3 -
Re: Doctor prescribed 2 different medicines at the same time.
are you able to talk to the doctor directly? If not I would ask your sister to explain the doctor’s rationale. Geriatric Psychiatrists are usually pretty good at prescribing anti-psychotic meds but y…2
Commonly Used Abbreviations
DH = Dear Husband
DW= Dear Wife, Darling Wife
LO = Loved One
ES = Early Stage
EO = Early Onset
FTD = Frontotemporal Dementia
VD = Vascular Dementia
MC = Memory Care
AL = Assisted Living
POA = Power of Attorney
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