naniacal dementia

in interview with family, someone said a Marine who died of Alzheimer's had forgotten the name of his children but he NEVER forgot he was in the Pacific

such a cruel disease

could tell u the detail of evry battle and didnt rememberr when he last took his meds or what day it was .

Towards the end of her life, she had no idea where she was or what day it was, but she could tell you exactly what she ate on any given day & the insistence on her homemade pasta sauce.

Back in the day, when home phones were the norm, I would agree that testing someone's ability to recall numbers was a good memory check. However, with smartphones, I don't know any numbers like that anymore

I still remember my mom and dad's, my best two friends' home phones and I'm 62

I'd put him at 3, at the mos.. From time to time, he seems quite in control and normal (for him). I do think he's lost his ability to read and remember. He confabulates, he perseverates. Hr does remember things like mo9vie ploits, confuses them with newscasts.

People around him can blow off Stage 3 as lapses due to fatigue combined with age, which is exactly what is happening with many of his staff and all of his fan club.

Stage 5 is severely impaired, no one can manage to blow it off since the person starts to get apathetic about many things, some of which Fats is still clearly obsessed with, like his appearance, although he is demonstrably unable to do the whole job of getting ready by himself.

During his first term, he moved around the edge of stage 1, generally compensating but with declining vocabulary. People watching video of him from 10 years prior would notice the difference (if they knew what they were looking for) but most would not have identified it as ementia. His rallies were different, I agree he was likely high as a kite on something or other, making assessment useless beyond "this guy is wacko."

stage 3.

Trump's biggest problem is narcidistoc personality disorder.

But I have just finished creating my Wall of Women which I have titled "And Still We Rise," after the Angelou poem (her portrait is on my Wall, photo by Annie Liebowitz).

I am preparing a showing here on DU, my tech guy is finishing it now. The music will be a piano rendering of "O Mio Babbino Caro" by Puccini. There are 19 images ranging from Botticelli to Dorothea Lange. At the end I will provide a credit roll so folks can see who did what.

It's too big to email to my kids so we'll figure out another way to give them access.