Does she really have Vascular Dementia?

TSmith

My mother received a diagnosis of advanced vascular dementia during a recent hospital stay. She was in the hospital after seeing robbers in her apartment and fleeing to her neighbor’s apartment.
She is currently at an ALF after a month in memory care. Everyone around her or people I talk to say she has dementia, but I am having a hard time seeing it.
I reconnected with her 2 years ago after a long estrangement and she has always been a difficult person. She seems so sharp in some ways (bills that are due, medical appointments) and then she will tell me her email is not working which I think means that she cannot figure it out.
Maybe the hallucinations from a UTI? I am having a hard to believing the diagnosis. (I do have POA and health proxy activated). I

Quilting brings calm

She most likely does if that is what the doctors diagnosed her with after ruling out other items - B12 or thyroid issues, NPH, etc. a UTI would have been checked as part of that.

Just because she doesn’t have every symptom of it doesn’t mean the diagnosis is wrong.

H1235

My mom has vascular dementia. For many at her AL and even here, memory seems to be the biggest most obvious symptom. My moms memory is not too bad. Her problems are executive functioning, logic and reasoning, anosognosia( thinks she can still do everything she did 15 years ago), change in personality ( used to be indecisive and lacked self confidence, now it her way or the wrong way), anger mild confusion, trouble finding the right words. With vascular dementia it is all about what part of the brain is effected. If you have doctors and others are telling you it’s dementia you need to accept that is what it is.