My husband also 2014 but he lived till Dec 27,2023 at age 87 he also was on Aricept

Here's a link to the Cleveland Clinic's explanation of Vascular Dementia:
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/...

Serves no purpose to tell them.
It is simply another hurt in the this journey of the lost.
No Ma'am.

There's also the FAST Scale (Reisberg Functional Assessment Staging Test)
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