I guess I am really lucky so far - short and long term memory is beyond intact

But after watching first my Father (Diabetes Dementia) and then my Wife (Parkinson's Dementia) and where it took them, at the first signs of symptoms it's worth a discussion with the Doc - sometimes there is pharmaceutical help to slow things down

I was always one that you could give me a math problem and I could give you a correct answer off the top off my head. now I can't even remember my own phone number, or my sons ages. Thats scary for me, my mother raised 5 children, she calls me by all my siblings names, she cries a lot, I see her declining day by day. I ask my sons their ages, they always reply, you know my age, I reply at one time I did. I laugh at myself, but there has been occasions I forget to turn the stove off (dangerous ) . But luckily my son lives with me and has caught this, I've always been a great cook, but if I'm making a complicated dish, I have to sit and think for a while. I know we have memory loss with age, but sometimes I am beyond being a little forgetful. They do have Prevagen, it supposed to help with memory, but not sure if it's safe for diabetics to take. My mother started declining last year after covid, she had covid brain fog made her Dementia worse, she recently had an MRI, shows Vascular Dementia, in 3 to 5 months she will no longer be able to walk, her Neurologist told us. I pray for anyone with a loved one battling this.

Sadly seem to be a common theme!! my memory is crazy bad I forget so much stuff I feel like I’m going mad 😢😢

My memory both long and short term has been affected and there wasnt a lot of diabetes in my family both parents didnt have it and mom got it much later in life back in 1996 but I did have some uncles who had the disease all of which were Type 2 and dont know of anyone who had Type 1 but then again Im not sure since all these family members are distant and many I dont even know or have ever met since many live out of Ontario. My grandmother had Alzeimers is that a genetic condition like Dementia?

I am but I am 67 years old and my mother had memory loss. She was a diabetic too.