Hi Julie - My husband (91)was diagnosed in fall 2019 with MCI. His regression has been mostly in the short term memory area (e.g. 3 hours after Thanksgiving he remembered nothing about it - who was there, that we sat for an hour and a half at a festive table - but he thoroughly enjoyed it while it was going on. His neurologist, at the beginning, recommended the psychological evaluation, for which we got up at the crack of dawn for an 8am appt. at Yale in New Haven, 1/2 hour away. 20 minutes into the evaluation he shut it down, saying it was insulting and he wasn't going to do it. Upon consideration, I wondered if this wasn't more about neurology research than any specific help for him (since they can't "cure" dementia). He has being wearing the Exelon patch daily and that has helped him, but the benefit seems to be waning. He spent 4 days in the hospital in Sept. with iron deficiency and a gazillion tests to see why he had tachycardia and I had to be there as much of the time as possible because he could not remember what the symptoms were that got him here. Sigh, fortunately he is not belligerent and his appetite has returned after the iron deficiency was addressed. It was clear that the 4 days in the hospital had a detrimental effect on him, and I am eternally grateful to the hospitalist who asked if I could manage him at home: dementia patients waking up to unfamiliar sights and sounds really sets them back. I don't have an answer for you, but I wanted to say that my mindset now is - as long as he's safe, I'm okay with whatever he wants to do: this isn't about me. Sit all day staring into space, ruminating about his past life, eating things that in younger days were NOT on the menu - bacon, full-fat ice cream, cookies, etc? OK by me. He's driving the bus and I'm just making sure he doesn't hurt himself.