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Someone being forgetful as they get older

shonky12

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hi

if you got a 80 year old lady whos the mother of the owner of the place that am working at seems to want you straight away and you cant attend to it straight away because you are tied up doing your standard jobs you have to do.

she is getting very forgetful and mean very forgetful do you guys think that would have anything to do with it with her having good and bad days at remembering things or is it likely because thats how her generation used to work.

being that shes 80 and forgetful her generation probably used to work different than the current generation of workers who are in their 30s/40s/50s.

our generation work different to how hers used to work in the olden days and wondered if thats more why or because of her getting more forgetful and having good and bad days and sometimes not even remembering how to turn a simple switch on or off.


she is very forgetful in her old age but is independent at moment so wondering if its because of that or if its how her generation used to work and thats how she expects the gen x and gen y to work as well and even boomers.

the whole family including me knows her condition and that she is still able to do most things.

obviously it will get worse but atleast at moment shes able to do most things, have asked the sister of the owner of that place on numerous times and she thinks that because shes forgetful in her old age and that she has good and bad days and that some days she is like that and sometimes doesnt remember someones there.

it seems to be happening a lot at moment and am just tired of it to tell truth.

how many years will yous give it before its so bad.

had a look on internet and what she does could be early clues but could be wrong too
 
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I don't think the vacuum cleaner motor will have anything to do with her forgetfulness. Give her some latitude, she is 80 after all.
She may be suffering from early onset Dementia or Alzheimers.
 

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That vacuum cleaner bit was copy and paste

most days don’t mind it’s when you’re tied up doing jobs and can’t get to it straight away
 

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Sounds exactly like my mother (except for the vacuum cleaner bit.) She'll be 90 this year and has trouble with memory and thinks people are breaking in stealing her stuff but she looked after me for so many years so now it's my turn.Cut her some slack,she can't help the changes she may be going through and you might be like that yourself one day.
 

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Ooooh guys he's back again asking important life questions on a Commodore forum.

I wonder if he'll report every comment he doesn't like the answer to like his last thread about buying a house on centrelink/part time work.

If your actually willing to accept peoples advice this time, please ask the questions but don't ignore and report everyones advice because it's not the answers you wanted to hear this time.


You can't use being from a different generation as an excuse for not doing what she asks of you when she asks it etc. If you don't like whats happening, find another job. If she owns the store (deli I think you told us in the last thread) then it's her shots to call.

At the end of the day it's her store, you are her employee. If you are in the middle of serving a customer and she tells you to stop, you stop, it's her store thats her choice to annoy the customer not yours, even if she doesn't realise what she's doing isn't whats best for the business.
 
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it’s the mother not the owner she even bosses the owner around too.

mainly wanted to know if it’s early dementia or if it’s how her generation worked when she was younger and expects our generation to do same
 
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Reason for probably getting on well with a lot of older generation is of having similar opinions to them and will feel sorry for the mother as we are good friends
 

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Ooooh guys he's back again asking important life questions on a Commodore forum.

I wonder if he'll report every comment he doesn't like the answer to like his last thread about buying a house on centrelink/part time work.

mainly wanted to know if it’s early dementia or if it’s how her generation worked when she was younger and expects our generation to do same

This is a car car forum, not a specialist doctor's waiting room.

Been doing these type of questions here and on the Ford Forum ( and others ?) for at least 12 years.
I was naive enough to reply to a 'how do I find friends' question by suggesting he gets a dog.
That would be one instant friend, which would lead to meeting other dog owning people who he may get along with.
Have you got that dog yet, shonky12 ?

Never takes any suggestions, and just keeps thinking of more pointless questions.
Don't be sucked in by replying ........... you are wasting your precious electrons.
 

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Never takes any suggestions, and just keeps thinking of more pointless questions.
Don't be sucked in by replying ........... you are wasting your precious electrons.

Not only that but any suggestions or comments he gets that isn't 100% what he wants to hear he flags the post and reports it.

Like when he thought everyone was going to help him with suggestions to buy a house while on centrelink and got shitty when we told him that it won't happen and reported all our posts.

He also didn't like the posts of being told that nobody is going to support him finding a job thats purposely low enough in hours he can extort the tax payers and stay on the centrelink teet at the same time.
 
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