I wonder if my Mom was showing signs of dementia right before she passed away

May 6, 2020 (Chapter 24 My thoughts and Feelings in my book)

I found this post on social media. This is what caught my eye. "Women have a verbal memory advantage over men that allows them to compensate for Alzheimer-related brain changes longer than men," says Erin Sundermann, PhD, researcher at the University of California-San Diego and author of the new study.

The reason that this particular paragraph caught my eye is because less than a month before my eighty-four-year-old Mom passed away in Nov. 2019, I became aware that she was having some cognitive problems. We went out and she experienced "the fog" while I was with her and that had never happened before. I am wondering if my Mom was showing some signs of dementia but I guess I will never know for sure. There are a lot of weird things that I noticed when I cleaned out her apartment. I think that if I take the time and write down all of the information that I found among her things, connect those dots, my Mom might have had dementia. This paragraph clarified some things for me. I can't read all of the text in the article, so I'm glad that this was at the beginning.