A district nurse called at lunchtime. She was asking my mother about incontinence (which she denies she suffers from) and her medical history (which she remembers nothing about).
I encountered the same weird procedure in the 90s, when my father had Alzheimer's. For several years, he could fool just about any telephone caller--he sounded perfectly reasonable to a stranger. We couldn't get his own doctor to forbid him from driving until he ran his car into a barrier and had no idea what had happened. He tried to say the brakes had failed--but they had not.
Since then, I've read many accounts of drivers using the same excuse for such accidents.
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Date: 2014-11-19 05:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-11-19 07:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-11-19 09:38 pm (UTC)Since then, I've read many accounts of drivers using the same excuse for such accidents.
Who makes these stupid rules?
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Date: 2014-11-20 10:33 am (UTC)I think we're in denial about senescence.