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Naturally forgetful people forget where they put their keys. People with dementia forget what keys are for. Naturally forgetful people say, "Dang! Where did I put my sunglasses?" People with dementia say, "Someone snuck in and stole my sunglasses!" I knew something was very wrong when my husband couldn't remember how to make tea from the tea bag and pot of water the waitress brought him.

It is not so much just the frequency of forgetting as the nature of what is forgotten and their reaction to it.

Dementia has other components in addition to memory loss. (Different kinds of dementia have different characteristics.) These may include hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, problems with depth perception, sleep disturbances, difficulty in coming up with even obvious solutions, anxiety over decision making, loss of sense of smell, and many more.

If grandmother develops additional symptoms that could be dementia, it may be time to get her evaluated.

For now, you know what grandmother's behavior is like. Whether you have a label for it or not, it is what it is and it is what you have to deal with. There are no cures for dementia and very little in the way of treatment plans.

In what way do you think having a diagnosis would change things for you?
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