New to the forum and sorry if I'm going to be repeating probably most people's worries about their loved ones. My Mother in law has been struggling with memory issues for quite a while but has worsened in the last year, a few major ones being unable to make out the time in the middle of the night even when told - feeling like she has missed a day because she has gone to sleep again. She uses wrong words for things and gets people confused bu sometimes will correct these quite quickly. She thinks people are in the house (including her mum who has been dead for 7 years now) but she will tell you she knows it can't be the case and even has a note by her to tell who is actually in the house (herself, husband and dog). There are lots more examples of confusion and disorientation. She is reluctantly going to the doctors and because of her history of anxiety they are just carrying on treating her for that though the truth is she is very clever and very selective about what she tells the GP. So all of this is completely undiagnosed. She has phoned tonight distressed to say she had a bad turn this morning when she woke she didn't know where she was and didn't recognise the dog and was asking her husband where all the other dogs were (she only has one) but doesn't care what we all advise she is not telling the GP and ending up having lots of tests. My ask is does this all sound like symptoms of dementia ? Would she be able to retell the fact she couldn't remember who the dog was or that she didn't recognise the house etc !? She had routine bloods done about 10 months ago and nothing untoward came up on that. Any help or advice would be lovely.