What are Sundowners?
GLD = Gordon Lightfoot Disease
What are Sundowners?
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The change of behavior in many dementia patients as the day progresses
(They get worse as the day ends into the evening)
An expression medical about the increase in dementia symptoms based on the “end of the day” (causality by reduction of light sensed by the nervous system/pineal gland triggering dementia symptoms). “Sundowning” when they act out usually in a nursing home setting.
So- the pump this joker with speed, ergoloids and probably cocaine to jump his A@@ up!
Stage in dementia where subject functioning level decreases in early evening.