Susan Ellen, your suggestion would be very helpful to my husband as well. Like you, his diagnosis is changing from MCI into Dementia. So many questions…so few answers. It is discouraging. Can I ask if you are still driving? My husband’s doctor has said he will have to quit. My husband’s issues are with remembering future
appointments, recalling names, forgetting where he put things (although he usually remembers after thinking on it awhile…I have that problem myself😊) …but as far as driving and getting around our city he is fine…in fact he is a very good driver. If we drive out of familiar areas, I am his map reader…we work as a great team. If he were not able to drive at this point, I believe he would shut down. This disease is hard enough for him to accept, but he is not at the point to give up his keys. He keeps our place (8 acres) beautiful, he drives a tractor and bush hogs others property…there is still so much he is still fully capable of doing. I live with him, we are both retired, I am with him the most, I believe I am a better judge of his abilities and I would be the one to know when the time has come for him to stop. It seems that now that the word Dementia has entered the diagnosis active life’s over. Your suggestion is a good one because there is no where else to go for answers. I have already learned a lot through Connect and am thankful for that. I would love to hear other’s thoughts on the driving issue.