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Dementia and interfere with normal speech patterns.
Drugs can have wide-ranging side-effects.
Has this problem come up after starting a new drug or changing dosage?
What I would do first is go to the pharmacy (or contact them online) and ask whether that is a known side effect of any of the drugs this person is taking. I did this once with a sudden problem of blurred vision and the pharmacist was surprised to report that yes, 15% of people who took the drug I had recently added did report that side effect. I told my doctor I needed to discontinue that drug, and why, and she was very surprised -- she had never heard of that side-effect. From experience, I'd always talk to a pharmacists first now. What they don't know from experience they can readily research.