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Originally Posted by DAEpperson

My mother's was certainly exacerbated by the illness and death of my father.

That said, she definitely has dementia. Not only was it diagnosed, the unbelievable shallow short term memory is no grief - she simply does not remember what happened a few seconds ago.

My mother in law was so far gone that the death of her husband of more than 60 years meant nothing.

A few days after he died, she asked: "What happened to the nice man who was here?" When told he'd died, all she said was: "That's too bad...he was a nice man." This said in a tone as if discussing a rainy day...