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Final complete day: 2026-09-28. Attention was 0.5% — this entity appeared in 5 of 988 analyzed posts/comments in the seven days ending that day (6 mentions).

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1. 2026-09-27 23:26 UTCComment

   Yeah my great grandmother had dementia when I was in my teens and I remember how it was with her and I just roll with the repeat conversations, they generally don't bother or annoy me. My main worry is that the bills are getting paid on time and such as she is the one in control of that - not me, I am just someone she is subletting to and I pay her board, essentially. My main thing is that she is happy and doing the important things that need to be done like paying bills, but she seems to be suffering from some mild agoraphobia whilst also wanting to get out and about more (which I think will be healthy for her).

2. 2026-09-27 18:26 UTCComment

   Just to add a few details: I live with my Parents at the moment, so it would be pretty difficult (though perhaps not impossible) for her to hide symptoms from me. My Dad has always been the bills / tech guy, so I’ve no idea if she would be able to undertake those things independently. She can still do the weekly shop without a list, prepare all of the meals she’s always prepared, operate the washer / dryer / oven / microwave (I’m making them sound very Victorian here)! She has a neurological appointment next week. I accept it may be the beginnings of Alzheimer’s, it just seems rather atypical

3. 2026-09-27 18:17 UTCComment

   This is a form of cognitive decline but you need a doctor to figure out if this is a vitamin deficiency, brain injury of any kind (including dementia-related disease), endocrinological, or what. There's dozens of potential conditions with "dementia-like symptoms" and you basically have to rule them all out before you get to dementia of any kind. There's a reason the first thing medical professionals ask anyone exhibiting any confusion or having even potentially experienced some kind of brain event the same questions to assess Alert/Lucid & Oriented (usually called AO and then x and the number of questions they got right, like AOx3). Time disorientation is a VERY common cognitive symptom. Now, losing a little track of time is not unusual, but yes when they can't tell you the year, month, or season that's a red flag. Another red flag: not always being able to identify if it's day or night, even looking right at a window. One of the sneakier early symptoms, and one they can hide pretty easily up until they do something really off, is decision-making. They start bouncing off things that have begun to confuse them - navigating the home screen on the smart TV, reading books, eating - because there's too many choices, they get decision fatigue, and just avoid doing those things. With the time confusion, they can struggle to pay bills on time (or they pay them multiple times) because they can't quite figure out when they should do it or if they've done it. I had to be staying with my mom for a while to see the real little concerning things she could gloss over when I was just on the phone or there for a few days. If you're not spending much time really up-close-and-personal you probably should, for long enough that she can't keep her game face up the whole time. In retrospect I was writing off a lot of "well, that's a tiny bit weird" things that I would have realized were much more alarming if I witnessed them up close.

4. 2026-09-26 16:03 UTCComment

   I agree. This is from Google: Lawmakers in Florida have proposed bills (such as SB 64 and HB 223) to explicitly grant residents or their legal representatives the right to install fixed-position cameras ("granny cams") at their own expense, provided roommates consent. However, these proposals face ongoing debate.

5. 2026-09-25 19:57 UTCComment

   The fact that she’s early enough to understand the diagnosis and still independent gives your family a window that a lot of families unfortunately don’t get. I’d use it, but I wouldn’t turn the next few years into everyone sitting around waiting for her to get worse. Take care of the practical stuff now while she can participate. Healthcare proxy/POA, finances, where she wants to live, who she wants involved in decisions, driving, medications, and what she’d want if she eventually needs significant help. Those conversations are much easier now than during a crisis. I’d also establish a baseline for the things she currently does independently. Cooking, medications, bills, driving, shopping, appointments, getting around town. Then you’re watching for changes from *her* normal rather than constantly trying to figure out what “stage” she’s in. Through our home care business, I’ve seen people progress very differently. There really isn’t a reliable calendar based just on age or diagnosis. Someone can stay relatively stable for quite a while and then change, while somebody else progresses differently. Most importantly, keep doing normal things with her. Trips, dinners, holidays, grandchildren, whatever she enjoys. She’s still your grandmother, not a future Alzheimer’s patient. Prepare for what may come, absolutely, but don’t let preparing for later take away the good time she still has now.