Diagnosis: Dementia

By Nicole J. Smith When I discovered more about dementia and how it would profoundly change my mother’s life, our lives, I created a timeline and jotted down journal entries to track the growing chaos. I made many cross-country trips to help my mother prepare her home for sale, only to be berated and asked to leave again within hours of arrival. The paranoia, anger, and accusatory behavior my mother exhibited was her new reality.