Not to sound weird, but there could also be other issues going on that could contribute to her speech issues. I feel compelled to play devil's advocate because it's not unusual for people to jump onto the "She/He has Alzheimer's!" train whenever they see an elderly relative become encumber...

I really long for the old internet... back when dial up was the norm and one could find endless legit forums (like this one). Nowadays, you use a search engine like Google and come up with TONS of ads and commercial sites, and sites like this one are buried so deep you can't even find them. I like s...

Yeah, the US government basically gave tech companies carte blanche to do as they please-- and this will bite us all, including those who helped push this legislation.

Well, not to sound odd, but it seems that a touch of senility makes some older people less aggressive to some degree. Maybe this lessened the likelihood of them getting into confrontations with stronger people (and therefor getting harmed/killed), kept them from holding strong grudges against their ...

I feel you there. I have nothing to share but want to add to the vent. I'm also really kind of resentful as I've come to realize I literally inherited the worst of both parents based on Promethease reports and process of elimination. My mother doesn't have the Apoe 4, but the Apoe 3-- I got the Apoe...

I wonder how many of us who carry E4 (I have E4/E3) also carry the C677T mutation, as well as MCAD deficiency, Alpha-1, ATM mutated. The last two were confirmed via "official" testing. I hit the lucky jackpot train wreck. I ALSO carry tons of problematic high-risk cardiovascular disease ge...

I made a bee-line for this topic as someone who is ApoE4/E3. I've been on antidepressants for almost 20 years until I stopped about two years ago. The older I get, the more I suspect that being on so many antidepressants for so many years actually made me more cognitively impaired than anything else...