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> My parents are at an age where they fall for things. If they're falling for things that they didn't used to fall for, that's sounds more like dementia than a
by hackernud3s 1mo ago
> My parents are at an age where they fall for things.
If they're falling for things that they didn't used to fall for, that's sounds more like dementia than age.
- fn-mote 1mo agoThere’s a long way between perfectly functioning and dementia. I want to say that I hope you never find out, but the twilight of life is tough either way.
- jolmg 1mo ago"Being at an age" can include having age-related illnesses.
- hackernud3s 1mo agoRight but an age-related illness that affects cognition is generally just called dementia.
- beloch 1mo agoNormal cognitive decline comes gradually with age to most people. Dementia is more severe, often more sudden, and can be caused by a host of things, from Alzheimer's to brain injury. Regardless, you're not going to take away somebody's computer because their brain isn't quite as sharp as it once was.
- hn_acc1 1mo agoOr maybe there are more things using the same tactics / scammer's reach keeps increasing. My parents "fell" for fundamentalism early (as kids - raised in it), for televangelists in their 40s, and Fox News in their 70s/80s. Fox News so recently only because they didn't get it very often until about 10 years ago when they moved into a retirement home (didn't have cable before that).
- hackernud3s 1mo agoRight that's why I qualified that with "things they didn't used to fall for".