My mother has dementia

Thankyou. What is so hard is that sometimes she seems fine and than she will say something really off the wall.

My father-in-law also has the early stages of it. His was caused by small strokes (he remembers having numbness in his face a few times and had spontaneous hearing loss and then regained it later) MRIs were done.The damage from strokes were evident thru lots of tests. Did your mother have lots of testing? There are many reasons for dementia (Alzheimers, stroke, head injury, certain diseases, even medication overdosage) I know that my father-in-law has good days and bad days and we have learned to cherish the good days but also to have some humor on the bad ones. It is easier for my husband and myself than it is for my mother-in-law. She lives with him and we live 2 and 1/2 hours away. She gets very tired. They were always "on the go" and now she will not admit that things must slow down. She had some resentment even though she knows that he can't help the things he does sometimes. Some of his symptoms were made worse by medication. Some have lessened with other meds.Don't take the doctor's word as gospel. Keep pushing for what your mother needs.

She had an MRI which revealed three silent strokes. She is basically a textbook example of Vascular Dementia.