Your consultant sounds wonderful, Marion! I think there is a lot of difference between treatment if you have AD or dementia. Agree about the value of the memory tests too, before my husband had a diagnosis I had spoken to the consultant physician at the Falls Clinic about his memory problems so he dashed off this quick test, about 10 questions, and told my husband he was doing very well. The neurological OT who seemed much more switched on did a battery of test which showed that he had severely impaired cognition! She said this often happened, the consultant told people they were ok and when she gave them the results of the more complex tests they were upset with her!
Personally I think it would be helpful for me to understand if/how fast he is deteriorating as if you don't get any input you can wonder if it's you who is imagining things. I think for him though it would just be upsetting, so on balance I prefer for him not to have to go through it.
Personally I think it would be helpful for me to understand if/how fast he is deteriorating as if you don't get any input you can wonder if it's you who is imagining things. I think for him though it would just be upsetting, so on balance I prefer for him not to have to go through it.