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Jerry2144

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8. How "just before"?

Reply to RandySF (Reply #1)

Tue Nov 18, 2025, 03:10 PM

22 hrs ago

Are we talking hours to days or months to years? Just how optimistic can we be for this one case?

And sorry about your loss. The long slow decline is the worst thing to see in a loved one.

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Is Trump losing his filter? Can that happen with dementia? [View all] leftyladyfrommo 23 hrs ago OP

I personally think he's dying. RandySF 23 hrs ago #1

How "just before"? Jerry2144 22 hrs ago #8

Months RandySF 22 hrs ago #9

Thanks Jerry2144 22 hrs ago #10

Well, Trump appears to have many other PatSeg 22 hrs ago #15

That very much can be a symptom of Dementia Wiz Imp 22 hrs ago #2

Maybe (bar so low, hard to tell), and yes. RockRaven 22 hrs ago #3

It definitely can. I've watched it happen with two people. MineralMan 22 hrs ago #4

ABSOLUTELY.... with Dementia FalloutShelter 22 hrs ago #5

He will have "friends" so long as he is useful to them newdeal2 22 hrs ago #7

Never friends... only pilot fish FalloutShelter 22 hrs ago #11

"Disinhibition" is very much associated with dementia. nt intrepidity 22 hrs ago #6

ECT can do that too Bmoboy 22 hrs ago #12

They do go to a yelling stage Blue Full Moon 22 hrs ago #13

a former du'er and good friend had a hella time keeping caregivers for his dad mopinko 22 hrs ago #14

Yes, absolutely. Ocelot II 21 hrs ago #16

God! I hope he doesn't either. nt leftyladyfrommo 19 hrs ago #18

Based on my experience with my father LastDemocratInSC 21 hrs ago #17

I lnew an old man who was dying of cancer and hr started.talking leftyladyfrommo 19 hrs ago #19