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In reply to the discussion: Our cohort is dying/dementing [View all]
2. I'm 64 and I've started to experience it. My brother-in-lay is 76 and he has obvious cognitive issues.
Wed Dec 31, 2025, 06:45 PM
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He's also become unsteady on his feet, having fallen a couple of times this year. My poor sister is still able to get out to do some activities on her own - line dancing, etc, but she doesn't trust him to be on his own overnight, so they always travel together, even though he's tough to be around. He gets stuck on a couple of topics that he's obsessed with, and he has to take a steroid ashthma inhaler that makes him super-aggressive, so if you don't immediately agree with him about whatever he's obsessed about, he gets angry about it. After each of the last four times we've gotten together, he's ended up apologizing afterwards for his behavior. I put up with it because I don't want my sister to get isolated because of him.

My main motivation in studing languages (currently Italian) and limiting my screen time is to hopefully keep my own brain reasonably healthy.

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