Bragging you just passed your 3rd dementia test is a great way of telling us they've made you take 3 dementia tests

[Swede]

Bragging that you just passed your 3rd dementia test
is a great way of telling us
they've made you take 3 dementia tests

— John Fugelsang (@johnfugelsang.bsky.social) 2026-01-02T21:12:37.992Z

[The Roux Comes First]

1. Not to Mention a Clear Indication That Neither You nor Your True Believers Have Learned

What "dementia" means!

[samsingh]

2. like raising your arms and declaring 'i am not a crook'

[sinkingfeeling]

3. I'm one year younger than TSF and see my doctor every 6 months. I have never been given a cognitive test. I have been

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asked if I have difficulity dressing, eating, or bathing myself as part of the annual Medicare exam.

Should add, then my doctor asks me what country I'm off to next.

[3Hotdogs]

4. I'm serious... not to brag on myself as it is due to genes and not to any behavior changes or adaptation....

I'm 83 and just completed the "chair test" where ya sit on the chair and see how many times you can get up and down in 30 seconds. I am at the 60 year old level.

The doc ain't never asked me if the picture was a giraffe or horse or elephant.

[erronis]

8. I'm guessing he fails all those "activities of daily living" (ADL). He gets help for everything - always has.

[PatSeg]

5. Or perhaps even more

It is possible that he is only admitting to three dementia tests.

[Ms. Toad]

6. Nope. Bragging that you passed 3 dementia tests is a great way of telling us you are too cognitively impaired

to recognize how trivial the test is, and how hard it is for an unimpaired individual to fail even a single question.

But, as to making him take 3 dementia tests - screening for dementia is a required part of annual wellness visits for anyone on Medicare. While he isn't on Medicare, Medicare sets the standard for elderly care. I've been screened for dementia 4 times, one of them using a couple of the questions from MOCA. Doctors aren't required to use a specific tool for screening, but MOCA is a common one for doctors who choose to use a formal tool rather than just basing the assessment on conversations.

If they were seriously concerned about dementia, they would make him take a full cognitive assessment test - one which is spread over a couple of days, and around 8 hours. I'd argue they should be, and that they should insist that he have a full dementia test. But those are uncommon until the dementia is so obvious and advanced that the test is almost pointless.

(I have a spouse diagnosed with cognitive impairment - so I have a fair amount of experience with the tests, and what they do (or do not) show.)

[Aussie105]

7. Forget the tests, any tests!

My highly (un)qualified medical opinion is that grandpa is nutz, that reason and logic have left the building, that any brain cells involved in feeling empathy died at his first breath after birth, and that he is a danger to the human race.

There!

The definitive analysis right there!

Now, stop concerning yourself over trivialities and move to the important question - what are you going to do about it?

Not about the person or his cabal of Deplorables, they are beyond help, but the damage that has been and is being doing to the country!

(ANSWER: Vote, like your life depends on it.)

I can never get over the fact people here never go to the next logical step.
Do you take your car with a problem to a mechanic, spend hours talking about the problem and never move to the 'how to fix it' part?