[Capt. Tom]

For those Freepers not familiar with Alzheimers, if you get asked the same question 3 times in a short period of time, like less than an hour, and answered each question , the person asking may have early Alzheimers.

Then they will have recent memory loss on other subjects, but maintain good long term memory in early Alzheimers.

It is downhill from there. Nothing can stop or reverse it at present.
Aricept, Doneprezil, Namenda can slow it down.

Alzheimes is not a fatal disease so if they don't die from something else they can live a long time until they refuse to eat. - Tom

[Vermont Lt]

There is a difference between dementia and Alzheimer’s. To the unaffected, it may appear the same—but it’s not.

People should be careful in making sweeping statements.

[steve86]

It is downhill from there. Nothing can stop or reverse it at present. Aricept, Doneprezil, Namenda can slow it down.

My mother has dementia (98 YO). She has been on those drugs (Aricept and donepezil are the same) and also Exelon, but it is standardized curcumin (standard treatment in Indian Neurology) that has stopped progression and even restored cognitive ability over the past nine months. She is remembering recent things now that I had forgotten.

Information offered to anyone interested; YMMV because dementia is multi-factorial in its causation.