Could someone hide dimentia?

I don't get what you're asking. Yes, people try to hide their dementia, but it doesn't last for very long. Yes, people with dementia often write notes to themselves about things they think they're likely to forget, but by the time they get to the 'forgetting people' stage it is unlikely that they're able to wander about the house to find such a note. It's also more things like 'there's money in the cupboard' or 'you keep your cigarettes in the magazine rack'.

People with dementia don't often forget who their family are until they're in the end stages of the disease. By this point, a letter to themselves would be pretty useless. They're likely to be just too confused to be able to read it or comprehend what it says. In my experience (and I have a good deal of it), people rarely forget they've had children or been married. They'll perhaps not be able to recognise a loved one who comes to visit but they will know they have children or a husband or a particular friend. However because the more recent memories have been lost, they'll be expecting them to look much younger.

The husband of one of my colleagues has dementia. It began in his late thirties and he is in his fifties. It's devastating, like a cancer or like Parkinson's or Lou Gehrig's Disease or ALS. He was - still is - a highly intelligent person. I had a conversation with him about Canadian history and he blew me away. But he can't remember my name (though he remembers his wife) and he gets disorientated as to place and time. He went from a high earning job to a nursing home in those twenty years. I don't know how long he was able to hide or deny his dementia.

Naturally one's feelings are unique to the person and his family, which is why I will not discuss your question with my colleague. She and her husband are entitled to keep their personal trial personal. I can sense the toll her care giving is taking on her. It tears at her and causes her to be unpleasant at work.

I suggest you think of what it would be like for you to sense you are losing control of your life. Consider Michael J. Fox and his physically debilitating Parkinson's Disease, or Lou Gehrig and his ALS or anyone you may know who has AIDS or could get it. Study dementia. People with dementia or any other disease with a death sentence usually read every thing about it that comes across.

It is hard to hide dementia for any period of time.

As your reality starts to conflict with group reality it will start to become evident.

The problem with your solution is that you are writing down important things right now that you will not even remember in the future. I might as well write down MY important things and mail them to you for all you know. That is the tragedy of dementia. At some point a stranger to you is going to hand you papers written by a stranger about a life you have no knowledge of.

Sorry

*dementia

The early stages, possibly. They will realise they are forgetting things and might become annoyed with themselves. They might then try to help themselves by making notes, like you say. But forgetting they have children will happen in later stages when it will become impossible to hide it anymore. Early stages would be forgetting simple things such as conversations they just had, what they were doing, that they'd put something on the cooker/in the oven. Minor events like that. Forgetting family would be the later stages.

https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/documen...

you can't hide something you have no control over - you might forget about the notes or what you are supposed to do with them