Short-term memory, absolutely appalling….

Goldieoldie15

Hard disk is full is the reason.

Oh dear 🤦🏼‍♀️ I expected people of a certain age to be better educated in regard to this dreadful disease
Unfortunately you can’t educate spam.

I think Goldieoldie15 was saying the hard disk is full in relation to short term memory failure, which was the theme of the thread, not in regards to dementia.

I also think my head (hard disk) is crammed to the brim with "stuff" that there is very little space for new information to be stored and retrieved quickly. However I expect a scientist would disagree saying that I have used a very small % of the human brain's capacity.

Am very happy to know I am not alone.

Dadima I suppose it is possible that Heaven Leigh meant that her father has both dementia diseases, Vascular and Alzheimer's.
My late husband had young onset vascular dementia with some
Alzheimer's disease too.

Listening to a guy recently on the radio talking about this he said its perfectly normal to forget where you've parked
your car at the supermarket, it's when you forget what colour your car is , then you need to be concerned ! Lol

Started watching a series on tv. Was on to second episode on tv when realised I'd seen it before.
It was " Unforgotten".

loopyloo 😂
At 83 I have my greatest moments of confusion when talking to my granddaughters and I forget which generation I'm talking to. The other day I was talking to one of them about things that had happened with my two sons. They are of course the girls' uncles but I was speaking about them as if they were her brothers. I only realised when I noticed her confusion. I laughed about it at the time, but now having written it down, it does seem a bit odd ......

I have to add, I think I am otherwise compos mentis with just the lapses in short term memory that everyone seems to experience. With regard to going into a room and not remembering what you came for, I was told by someone that if you go back over the threshold of the room and come in again that jogs your memory. It works!

I once heard an expert on R4 saying that it’s common for people to worry that they’re getting dementia if they can’t remember where they left their car in the car park.

He said the time to worry is when you get in the car but can’t remember how to drive it. (Or, from family experience, can’t remember the way home, which is only a couple of miles away.)

Witzend your post reminds me of my cousin's experience. She was concerned about the possibility that she had dementia. Her main concern was that she could still read music, but could no longer play the piano.
My cousin was diagnosed with dementia. She was in her mid sixties at the time.

I think we all worry about dementia and we all forget things, especially names.
My memory is really no worse than it used to be and it’s always been poor. I remember my own past clearly and I always found it very easy to remember poetry. What was impossible was to learn any subject which didn’t interest me and that was most of the school curriculum.

I seem to be forgetting names of people and places all the time now. I find that if I go and do other things for half an hour or so my brain will work through its filing system and eventually come up with the name, As long as I know that the knowledge is in there somewhere I'm not too worried.