What would be the benefit of pretending to have alzheimers..
Disability
But what else?
And won’t brain scans have to confirm
You receive some benefits in care.
I’ve often wondered about statins since the brain is full of cholesterol.
Peoples brains are rotting due to cell phone internet. Swipe swipe swipe, it is like playing slot machines 20 hours a day.
I’m not saying that people are pretending to have alzheimers. Where did you even get that idea?
I’m saying people were unaware they could have some sort of service for say their elderly parents with the disease. I’m a nurse and I have seen this. People with parent with dementia and they are caring for them, breaking their backs to do so, unaware they can have some help with their insurance covering.
What would be the benefit of pretending to have alzheimers.
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Many have posited that Biden is pretending. So later when he is arrested and tried - he can get off claiming he doesn’t know.
Don’t think that brain scans help here.
Diagnosis of dementia:
“There is no one test to determine if someone has dementia. Doctors diagnose Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia based on a careful medical history, a physical examination, laboratory tests, and the characteristic changes in thinking, day-to-day function and behavior associated with each type.”
A couple of decades ago my wife and I applied for the long term health insurance to help if we needed home care.
I had just turned 62 and she was 60.
The nurse asked my wife a few a questions and said she was fine.
I was told a series of number,then I got the same questions my wife got and a quick physical exam. Her focus was on bp, pulse rate and listening to my heart with her stethoscope. I passed those with no problem even after mild exercise.
She asked me the series of numbers several times during this part of the exam.
Finally when she asked me again, I closed her pad and asked her the numbers, she got 1 correct out of the series. I handed it back to her and told her the series, correctly, again.
Then, she said that I passed.
My wife asked as one RN to another RN, why I was tested.
That RN said that being a male at age 62 and early retirement were a common possible clue.
After she left my wife said it was a good thing she didn’t have to take and pass that test. She could only remember the first and last #.
My wife has one of the best memories (often too good), I have ever seen in action.