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My grandmother had very serious dementia. I remember a year or so before we were aware of it that she almost ran a cyclist off the road which was very uncharact

• Baeocystin 5y ago
  One of the early signs that foreshadowed my mother's decline was the deterioration of her driving skills, and this preceded almost all other noticeable symptoms. Driving is a complex skill that requires rapid, continuous sensory integration to perform well. It makes sense to me that it is something that would first show a deficit.
• ben_w 5y ago
  One of the early signs in both my mother’s and grandmother’s Alzheimer’s was forgetting to pay (UK) road tax. Somehow both of them managed to get away with being on the road for the next six months, before the rest of the family found out and intervened. At least in my mother’s case, this was far from the only thing that suddenly became wrong with her driving; she also developed a fear of going over about 50 mph and using gears above third, and one sign we only recognised in retrospect was that she forgot how maps worked.