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Posted: 11-09-07 13:04pm
aaahhh thanks ingi .....and thanks for the
sp....i can never spell that word
correctly.
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tigresacanela24
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Posted: 11-09-07 13:06pm
found this on northwestern university's
website
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Dementia: Causes, Symptoms, Diagnoses
What is dementia?
The term "dementia" is used to describe
the gradual deterioration of
"intellectual" abilities and behavior that
eventually interferes with customary daily
living activities. "Customary daily living
activities" include balancing the
checkbook, keeping house, driving the car,
involvement in social activities, and
working at one's usual occupation. There
may also be changes in personality and
emotions. Contrary to popular belief,
dementia is not a normal outcome of aging,
but is caused by diseases that affect the
brain. Dementia influences all aspects of
mind and behavior, including memory,
judgement, language, concentration, visual
perception, temperament, and social
interactions. Although dementia symptoms
are eventually obvious to everyone, in the
early stages special evaluations are
necessary to demonstrate the
abnormalities.
In people over the age of 65, the most
common cause of dementia is Alzheimer's
disease. Alzheimer's disease is a form of
brain degeneration in which abnormal
particles called neurofibrillary tangles
and neuritic plaques form in the brain and
destroy healthy neurons (brain cells).
These abnormalities tend to settle in
brain areas that control the ability to
learn a new fact and remember it 30
minutes, or a day later, a skill we refer
to as "memory". Years of studying
dementias have shown that Alzheimer's
disease is not the only type of brain
degeneration. There are other forms of
brain degeneration, many of which can
affect people in their 50's or even 40's.
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Ingi
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Posted: 11-09-07 13:08pm
tigresacanela24
wrote:
Ingi
wrote:
There was a lady who lived
in the apartments I managed who was
schizo. She did this same exact thing.
Same. Exact. Thing.
You'd ask her how her kitchen stove had
been moved from her apartment and she
wouldn't know. She couldn't tell you. She
would say she couldn't tell you. But she
was the only one there...
How old is she?
You can try to get her help, but if she
has some mental problem (like schizo), no
one can help her unless she asks
for it.
The lady at my building would come down to
pay her rent 7-10 times a day every single
day because she couldn't remember that she
had already paid her rent. Then she would
come back and ask me if I received her
rent check for the month because she
didn't know what happened to it. She
would swear that someone took it from her
checkbook. She would also go to the store
to buy a tv dinner about as often as she
stopped in to pay her rent. I don't know
if she ever ate them but I know she sure
did buy them.
Yeah! But the lady at my building was
schizo. This one time, she pounded the
door knob off her apartment. Because
someone (she suspected me...) took
her keys and changed her locks. She was in
her apartment with a hammer, hammering her
door down. I had to call the police to
come. They couldn't take her away because
she wouldn't go and just because she is
mental, doesn't mean she doesn't have
rights. I spoke with her family and they
were like, "Well, we can't do anything.
We've tried." It was really sad.
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Mommy35
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Posted: 11-09-07 13:19pm
I think you did the right thing Jamie. I
hope the woman gets the help she
needs/deserves.
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tigresacanela24
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Posted: 11-09-07 13:56pm
Ingi
wrote:
Yeah! But the lady at my building was
schizo. This one time, she pounded the
door knob off her apartment. Because
someone (she suspected me...) took
her keys and changed her locks. She was in
her apartment with a hammer, hammering her
door down. I had to call the police to
come. They couldn't take her away because
she wouldn't go and just because she is
mental, doesn't mean she doesn't have
rights. I spoke with her family and they
were like, "Well, we can't do anything.
We've tried." It was really
sad.
Yeah, we had one of those too.
She believed that she was a high rolling
exec at cbs/arista living rent free in a
corporate apartment. She also believed
that the maintenance men worked for
arista. I of course worked for the "black
cbs" or "motown" and I didn't belong in
the building.
She would barricade herself into her
apartment because the maintenance
men/arista workers were out to steal her
music from her because in addition to
being a high flying exec she was also a
world renowned singer. Oh yeah, she also
owned half of the neighborhood.
I didn't know you had worked in property
management. That's pretty cool! Did you
like it? I liked every aspect of it
except for the fact that I had to do
everything from marketing to accounting
for my site. I didn't have any help in
the office. I think that if they would
have found a new maintenance super and
gave me an assistant manager, I could have
stayed there for a while.
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Ingi
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Posted: 11-09-07 14:03pm
Hrm. Confidentiality agreements make me
unable to answer your question in detail.
But the simple answer is NO. Mostly it was
the company I worked for. Although there
were some tenants who expected me to be
their mama. Ugh.
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AyaMiyaki
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Posted: 11-09-07 14:51pm
Ingi
wrote:
Hrm. Confidentiality
agreements make me unable to answer your
question in detail. But the simple answer
is NO. Mostly it was the company I worked
for. Although there were some tenants who
expected me to be their mama.
Ugh.
Aww, but you're such a great mama bear
Mm hmm! That's my new nickname for you!
Mama Bear! <3
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Emma2
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Posted: 11-09-07 14:53pm
AyaMiyaki
wrote:
Ingi
wrote:
Hrm. Confidentiality
agreements make me unable to answer your
question in detail. But the simple answer
is NO. Mostly it was the company I worked
for. Although there were some tenants who
expected me to be their mama.
Ugh.
Aww, but you're such a great mama bear
Mm hmm! That's my new nickname for you!
Mama Bear! <3
lol so fitting!
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Sandbox Party
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Posted: 11-09-07 15:38pm
shes the Forum Mother.
^_^
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Ingi
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Posted: 11-09-07 18:09pm
Aww! You guys are gonna make me get all
weepy.
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tigresacanela24
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She believed that she was a high rolling
exec at cbs/arista living rent free in a
corporate apartment. She also believed
that the maintenance men worked for
arista. I of course worked for the "black
cbs" or "motown" and I didn't belong in
the building. 
