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Originally Posted by nidgey103 hi i am new to this and this is my first post. my mum got officially diagnosed with early alzheimers a few months ago: she has had memory problems for quite a while, but this has got rapidly worse as of late. she is on medication, but this appears to have no effect. my wife and i have looked after her finances for a while, as when she did have her own bank card, she was withdrawing about £400 a day and stashing it in her flat, thankfully most of this was recovered. our main concern is with personal ...