Diet can do it too, e.g vitamin D deficiency also causes cognitive decline, and if doctors find out someone is eating 50% butter and puts them on statins (anti cholesterol) that causes reversible cognitive decline as well.

Bizarrely, with elderly people you also have to watch out for “silent” UTIs - they don’t hurt so the person might not realise they have one and it causes really marked signs of dementia, eg they say really dementia-ish things. Antibiotics clears it up. I saw this one first hand and it was such a relief to actually figure it out and get the person back to normal.

I love the light shining through the trees and sky. Is it a river, or a pond?

Gorgeous! I haven’t been there in years, I don’t remember it being so flowery!

o_O

You could totally write kids’ books.

It’s not all natural either. I’ve recently learned about anticholinergic burden and am annoyed I didn’t know sooner because with the health system the way it is now (so many locums, no continuity of care, overworked hospitals) elderly people really need their family looking out for stuff like this.

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Bunch of factors:

• cognitive decline

• cognitive issues related to medications eg anticholinergic burden

• belief that they no longer “understand” the way things work and have to take younger people’s word for things

• fear due to physical vulnerability (give in to scammers to avoid getting hurt physically)

• loneliness (give in to scammers because they think they are making a human connection)

What we can do to help oldies is to be actively in their lives and looking out for them. Helping them navigate stuff and just letting them know we are there.

Super atmospheric. I love the bit of light on the rhs it kind of suggests the contrast of a cosy house with the street.

Beautiful, that mist layer really makes it ethereal!

Makes sense. I still really love plain lemonade ones, feels like a treat for me.

New New Internet.

Here’s a photo I took inside a car wash

Could be some kind of vinegar (isn’t malt vinegar brown?), if it’s a stock photo set up that might also explain why it’s directly touching the actual ink instead of plain or wax paper?

This convo is so making me want hot chips darn it! Or that top piece…

Me too.

Thanks! Done!

Great, I’m back to questioning my identity and I’d forgotten the other super hard question in there, dessert. 😃

What can I say, I was young and it feels like it should work so I kept thinking maybe the champagne wasn’t good enough, maybe it works better with dry instead of sweet, etc.

If you hate tonic, maybe substitute one of those fancy Fever Tree club sodas then?

Gorgeous!!!

The top piece does.

The bottom piece appears to be congealing into the newsprint though, probably because the hand seems to be pouring a thin dribble of vegetable oil on to it from what I first thought was a sauce bottle.

They declined the takeaway food too though.

The part she was reimbursed for was the car loan and medication costs.