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8. My mother also gamed the tests.

Reply to agingdem (Reply #3)

Sun Jul 12, 2026, 11:26 AM

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I witnessed it and then I'd have to chase after the medical student or social worker and tell them that they'd just been told a pack of lies by my mother. Then I'd get apprehensive side eye as the practitioner wondered if I was the problem.

Finally my mom's primary care physician stepped in and told the team that my mom started from a highly intelligent baseline and was using her decades of experience working in a healthcare setting to hide and obfuscate her severe dementia.

It's one of the things that makes being the primary caregiver for someone suffering from dementia so difficult. These are patients who fight their caregivers.

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