Is the change I am seeing in my mom's personality an indicator of early dementia?

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Kashka40 Asked January 2023

Is the change I am seeing in my mom's personality an indicator of early dementia?

I've seen some signs of short-term memory loss, her struggle to find or remember how to spell words, but I'm also seeing more unpleasant changes. My son lives with my mother, so I also hear about some of these issues through him. For example, yesterday she was screaming at the poor Guardian Medical operator who called because she accidentally triggered her pendant (again). This is not behavior I've ever seen from her before. She seems more petty and angry. I have been concerned about depression and I think that could be a contributing factor, but I am curious about what others have experienced.

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Kashka40, as another poster had suggested, have your Mother tested for an Urinary Tract Infection [UTI]. Such an infection can cause all types of different behaviors.

The test can be done by your Mom's primary doctor or even at urgent care. The test consist of peeing in a cup. If the test comes back positive, then the doctor will prescribe antibiotics.

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Has she been checked for a UTI? Elderly women can get them very often, and symptoms can be just changes in their behavior/personality. This is easiest to discount as the source of her recent changes.

Has she ever had a medical diagnosis of cognitive impairment/memory loss? Who is her PoA, if she has one? It's time to get ducks in a row so that helping her will be "easier" -- you need to know what you're dealing with and the PoA needs to be able to activate the authority now.

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I am confused by your profile post. You say that your mom has Alzheimer’s disease in independent living. Is that correct?

Then I read that your son lives with her. Which is it? Can you clarify please?

Why is your son living with your mother? Wouldn’t it be better for her to be cared for by a professional staff at a facility?

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A lot of people who are concerned about the possibility of dementia and include that in their profile or as a care topic have not been diagnosed, I think the reason for that are the prompts from the site that asking for categories (which is stupid and confusing to a lot of newbies because the forum isn't filtered that way, it's all just one big forum)

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I would see about depression/anxiety first. Fear/stress turned my mom into a yeller/afraid long before any MCI/dementia kind of stuff showed up.

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