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He has started helping with dinner. Taking care of houseplants. Has not done either of those things for two years.

The trajectory is "usually" downward.
However, different types of dementia manifest differently.
For instance, Alzheimer's goes down in a sort of curve, some others by stairsteps of stability at each step down. Whereas Lewy's can be up and down and all over the place and is GREATLY affected by anxiety. Esp. in early stages.

The important thing is to know there is no "expected" and no "norm" and that you can expect the unexpected. How nice to be surprised in a good way.

You can find lots of information online about the progression of different dementias, and I saw one wonderful article with graft of it. But of course have since lost the link.
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"After 4 years of multi-domain lifestyle interventions including nutrition, socialization, and physical exercises, the patient's cognitive function, especially memory function, improved significantly." That's a sentence from one* of many articles in medical journals so, yes, apparently so.

It will be interesting to see to what his medical teams attributes the change.

Congratulations, that's pretty awesome!


*Miao Y, Cui L, Li J, Chen Y, Xie X, Guo Q. Cognitive Improvement After Multi-Domain Lifestyle Interventions in an APOE ɛ4 Homozygous Carrier with Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Case Report and Literature Review. J Alzheimers Dis. 2022;89(4):1131-1142. doi: 10.3233/JAD-220374. PMID: 35988223.
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What medication is he on?

How long has he been on it?

I'm happy for you both that he's seemingly improved!
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qwiltks1 Mar 10, 2025
Medicine Donepizel and Memintine. For 2 years. He took a couple of walks when weather was good. Hadn't walked in over a year.
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