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LDS. Whatever happened to your grandma? I assume you have returned to T&T now.

Also, I'm wondering about hospice care. In the United States, the government pays for the care when the families are unable. (There is a lucrative law practice in HELPING families arrange their affairs to get this free government aid - which I am opposed to.) Doesn't Argentina have something similar?

Rather off topic, but... Hey, Persephone. That news bot is not properly citing to quoted text.

Elderly The Dementia

LDS,
There is not much one can do with stubborn family members!

My father is 82, is diabetic (under control) and has senile dimentia. He forgets short term events but keeps repeating things from when he was a teeneger and older. He doesn't remember where he put his hat 30 minutes ago but knows the license plate of his car from 30 years ago! He goes in and out of that state and as long as diabetes is under control, then the dementia will subside accordingly.

He was given the drug Aricept and it seemd to help! He is in a nursing home and that helps because he almost burned down his house a few times and luckily someone was there to check on him. One one occasion, he put one some rice and beans and went outside walking and luckily I dropped by and went inside the house to see and smell a pot on the stove with the water boiled out and the rice and beans almost black and sticking to the pot!

Dementia In The Elderly Health & Special Psychology

Light therapy 'can slow dementia'

Dementia could be slowed significantly by treatments which reset the body's natural clock, research suggests.
Ref. https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7445606.stm

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Money problems 'signal dementia'

US researchers say a decline in financial skills is detectable in patients the year before they develop Alzheimer's. Ref. Source 5

Elderly The Dementia

I know a lot of people who can not manage their finances very well but I do not think that is leading them to dementia. I am not sure I would trust this as a way to tell this is happening.

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Estimate: 135 million worldwide with dementia by 2050

New estimates suggest that dementia is going to be an even bigger global problem than previously thought. Ref. Source 8

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This is a sweet video that shows how dementia can affect the elderly but when they do remember you it is special:

Dementia The Elderly Psychology Special & Health - Page 2

'I really hope she dies soon'

WHEN Sydney man Jake Heath posted a series of heart-wrenching photos documenting his mother's health decline to Reddit, he had no idea what he was setting off. Ref. Source 3z