Post #3866614
2026-07-16 19:35 UTC
Replies (4)
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@Steveg58@aus.social 2026-07-16 22:28
@CppGuy@infosec.space Here in Australia those 'memory tests' are absolutely useless because they are impossible to fail. Doctors will try very hard to not give a dementia diagnosis for an elderly patient. It took nurses to actually recommend placement to get my mother into assisted living and that was because a nurse started looking harder after my mum thought I was her brother and noticed that every time she asked about mum's living arrangement she got a different answer. We finally got a dementia diagnosis after she had to be moved to a secure facility.
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@qwazix@bananachips.club 2026-07-17 00:23
@CppGuy@infosec.space I guess ours don't ask who the PM is but for the opposite reason. His (last) name has 30% chance to be the same as in 1965...
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@jan@social.eden.one 2026-07-17 05:19
@CppGuy@infosec.space In March 1965, it would be.
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@JustinDerrick@mstdn.ca 2026-07-17 12:18
@CppGuy@infosec.space I actually used this to track my grandmother’s regression in time from her dementia. I’d ask her what year it was, and when she said she wasn’t sure, I’d ask her to guess…. And whatever she would answer, my response was always “Well, that’s close enough!” It sounds silly, but I’d use that to determine which pictures we would look at. If she said 1960-something, I’d show pictures before I was born. If she said 1980-something, we’d talk about going to the cottage or the sweaters she knit for me, or when family from Europe came to visit…