Well my husband has started forgetting his cell phone number, and what year it is......

[Ilsa]

24. There are different types of dementia

and medications to slow it. Get a referral to a neurologist for a proper diagnosis. If don't have a power of attorney yet, you probably need to get one. His ability to function in taking care of himself should be assessed to start s baseline.

I'm caring for my MIL with dementia. Her filter is almost gone. She can go from sweet & happy to vicious and miserable if the wrong words are spoken in front of her. One day she came up from her basement apartment and complained about my dogs, who can't get in to her apartment unless she lets them in. She whacked my old female dog, who was lying down, with a magazine. That set me off worse than her calling the cops on her son (my husband) over a nonexistent crime. I told her to go back to her apartment if she doesn't like being around my dogs, who live upstairs.