I wonder how true that is. There are plenty of people who do know it when it starts happening, because it's not a sudden change - so they'll have bouts of compl

I wonder how true that is. There are plenty of people who do know it when it starts happening, because it's not a sudden change - so they'll have bouts of complete clarity. In Oregon, there is/was an effort/lawsuit by one person in early stages of Alzheimer's to allow for physician assisted suicide after diagnosis. Currently one of the requirements is such that it precludes being used by dementia patients. Just Googled it - she had to move to another country to get that assisted suicide. There are other anecdotes of people being aware they're falling into dementia. I know a famous writer whose mother knew it and asked him to kill her before it got worse (he refused). So I wonder what proportion do and what don't.