Although I don't think it's right to post videos of our struggling loved ones, this video helped me recognize my mother's behavior. It's her to a T.
If you look at my profile, you'll see that my mother showtimed her way through cognitive testing and got a diagnosis of severe depression. If she doesn't have Alzheimer’s, I'll eat my hat.
Would a person with psychotic depression get agitated and tell their daughter all the graphic ways she should be violated for being a whore and a thief? And tell her she should have been miscarried? That's an Alzheimer’s thing, am I right?? My sister thinks she could get well. I think 6 to 10 years of on-and-off agitation is dementia.
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Paranoia and broken filter is classic age-related dementia. Other types can be caused by TIAs or alcoholism and other causes. Lewy Body dementia (which often comes with Parkinsons) includes hallucinations.
Some people have mental health issues that precede their dementia, and makes identifying it and treating it (the mental health part) very difficult. There is no cure or treatment for dementia.
Your Mom needs as accurate a diagnosis as possible in order for her medical team to treat her with any medications (for her depression, anxiety, agitation). They also need to test her for any other physical health problems that are treatable, like a UTI, which can make dementia symptoms worse.
I would not rely your "opinion" of what she has, if you are interested in helping her or are her PoA.
Depression almost ALWAYS manifests as EXTREME anger at some point.
NO ONE showtimes their way through exams for Dementia, not if they are correctly done by a neuro-psyc.
I recommend the following memoir to your family. Liz Scheier's Never Simple, about her attempts to help her mother with personality disorders to manage her life. She used the good auspices of the City and State of New York, all to no avail. She couldn't help her.
I am so sorry you are going through this, and I so wish you the very best.
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Furthermore, issues other than dementia could be causing this. She needs an psychiatric evaluation.
In any event, my purely amateur opinion she will not get better .