Iris, what a wonderfully encouraging article. Thanks for sharing it with the group. Remaining socially active is critically important to our emotional health. I hope that you can start a group like this in your area for singles. If anyone could do it, it would be you!

God Bless, Paul

Myriam, We're not victims. 

But as I began to close out this thread, I realized that too many people are.

They refuse to recognize the symptoms in themselves when an early diagnosis offers the best results can be obtained through medication and lots of work.  Later, their friends and relatives refuse to acknowledge the signs.

So, by the time they are led, kicking and screaming to a diagnostician they also have Anosognosia.

They and their loved ones absolutely know that nothing can be done, so nothing is. They are content to withdraw from the world and  become couch potatoes. When things become impossible at home they are dumped in the nearest Nursing Home. Again, no activities. Sit in the wheel chair grouped around the nursing station and doze the day away.

Those are the victims that don't seem at all affected by all the work the Alzheimer's Association and other similar groups have done.

Good point, Mimi. But I wonder whether it's more about fearfulness than victimhood. I know a few people who have anosognosia and when I broach the subject with them, I can see them considering what I said, but then dismissing it and changing the subject.  

One is close to me and that person is very accomplished. I believe they cannot fathom it can happen to them, so it's "I'm just getting older, that's all." All are intelligent and strong willed. Don't know if that is a common denominator for those with anosognosia.