A word to the wise is sufficient.
Delusions is not a symptom of dementia.
You googled for dementia+delusions and got results for 2024 (!!!) junk (in my expert opinion) paper to prove me wrong.
This recent junk paper is not recognized by any medical diagnostic manuals/prescriptions.
I listed standard list of symptoms. My relative fit them perfectly. Biden fits them very well.
Delusions can be a symptom of dementia as well as a number of mental illnesses. My mother died of dementia related causes and had spent several years in a nursing home when she became too much of a danger to herself to remain in her home. Most of the time, she did not suffer from delusions but occasionally, she did, including being certain she was seeing and talking to relatives who had been dead for years. At her worst, she sounded more coherent than Trump usually does.
We definitely do not need a POTUS who is delusional. Which means no Trump. Sorry Putin.
Thanks for bringing that up, although I doubt we will ever convince him. One of my dear female patients who suffered from dementia, had frequent delusions and hallucinations. Sometimes she thought she was riding on a bus, or on a plane or she was in a different city etc. She actually knew she had dementia. I guess it was drilled into her head by her family as she often would say to me, "I have dementia". I think she died of heart failure before the dementia reached its final stages. She still recognized her family members even if she did have severe delusions.
There are numerous symptoms of AD, the most common form of dementia and I've seen most of them while working as a nurse, but I've already mentioned many of the symptoms, and as Toni just mentioned, Trump has far more suspicious symptoms of cognitive decline compared to Biden.
One more thing....I've read numerous books about the brain, including one about the aging brain. Some neurologists have made the case that the reason that normal aging includes forgetting names, words etc. if because older adults have so much data in our brains, due to our years of life experience, that it sometimes takes us longer to recall things. That happens to me. Last week I forgot the name of someone who works at our senior center, but as a walked out the door, her name suddenly came to me. Hopefully, what those neurologists claim is correct and I'm simply sometimes forgetting names or words due to all the stuff in my brain. All of my older friends have the same problem, some more than others. The ones who I worry about are the ones who totally forget a conversation we had a few day ago, not the ones who forget names. But, our brains do shrink starting around age forty, so maybe we are all losing it, once we pass forty.