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Eccentric is wearing a big red floppy hat, fur coat and knee-high boots in 90-degree weather, building metal sculptures in your front yard, and decorating the exterior of your house with broken pottery shards. Dementia is wearing nothing at all in -20 degree weather while sitting in the front yard making mud pies. Make sense? The eccentric knows exactly what they're doing and do it because it's fun and it makes people look at them funny. The dementia patient has no idea what they're doing or why.
I wouldn't classify being eccentric as going-senile [dementia]. Famous people such as Mark Zuckerberg [Facebook] and Jeff Bezos [Amazon] are considered being *eccentric*. Also the late Howard Hughes.
No. Eccentric is not as maladaptive as dementia. Dementia could make eccentricity worse and the combination is likely worse than either alone - the ability to compensate for eccentricity and still be functional would tend to decline and things that worked, however oddly, for years on end would tend to fall apart.
Eccentric is what many characters in British novels are. Also some American novels set in the South. There are probably just as many eccentric people in the Midwest (for example) but we tend not to use that term much. (We tend to describe such people as "a little weird, but harmless.")
Senile is an obsolete term. It used to be used to describe cognitive and behavioral changes that occurred in old age. It is one of the reasons Dementia appears so much more prevalent now -- people weren't diagnosed with it in past generations, they were just considered "senile."
Dementia is a neurological condition. Upon autopsy it can be seen quite plainly in the brain. There are 50 or so kinds of dementia and what shows up in the brain will identify the kind of dementia exactly.
I have a friend -- a math professor -- who wears shorts to teach his classes until the weather absolutely makes that impossible. (His classes sometimes have a betting pool about what day he will first show up in long pants, in the fall.) I guess I'd call him mildly eccentric (or a little weird, but very smart, and harmless, as we'd say in the Midwest).
A person who wears totally inappropriate clothes -- a bathing suit to a wedding or shorts outdoors in the winter -- probably has some cognitive problems, such as dementia.
My grandmother was said to be "senile" the last few years of her life, spent in a nursing home. Today she would be considered to have dementia.
Eccentric is leaning over to pet a skunk. I can do that. They know who their friends are. Dementia is thinking the skunk is your pet dog, so you try to give him a bath to get the stink off. LOL let's keep this going....:-)
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I. How We Work in Washington.
Based on your preferences, we provide you with information about one or more of our contracted senior living providers ("Participating Communities") and provide your Senior Living Care Information to Participating Communities. The Participating Communities may contact you directly regarding their services.
APFM does not endorse or recommend any provider. It is your sole responsibility to select the appropriate care for yourself or your loved one. We work with both you and the Participating Communities in your search. We do not permit our Advisors to have an ownership interest in Participating Communities.
II. How We Are Paid.
We do not charge you any fee – we are paid by the Participating Communities. Some Participating Communities pay us a percentage of the first month's standard rate for the rent and care services you select. We invoice these fees after the senior moves in.
III. When We Tour.
APFM tours certain Participating Communities in Washington (typically more in metropolitan areas than in rural areas.) During the 12 month period prior to December 31, 2017, we toured 86.2% of Participating Communities with capacity for 20 or more residents.
IV. No Obligation or Commitment.
You have no obligation to use or to continue to use our services. Because you pay no fee to us, you will never need to ask for a refund.
V. Complaints.
Please contact our Family Feedback Line at (866) 584-7340 or ConsumerFeedback@aplaceformom.com to report any complaint. Consumers have many avenues to address a dispute with any referral service company, including the right to file a complaint with the Attorney General's office at: Consumer Protection Division, 800 5th Avenue, Ste. 2000, Seattle, 98104 or 800-551-4636.
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APFM does not (and may not) require or even ask consumers seeking senior housing or care services in Washington State to sign waivers of liability for losses of personal property or injury or to sign waivers of any rights established under law.
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I authorize A Place For Mom ("APFM") to collect certain personal and contact detail information, as well as relevant health care information about me or from me about the senior family member or relative I am assisting ("Senior Living Care Information").
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APFM may provide information to me electronically. My electronic signature on agreements and documents has the same effect as if I signed them in ink.
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Eccentric is what many characters in British novels are. Also some American novels set in the South. There are probably just as many eccentric people in the Midwest (for example) but we tend not to use that term much. (We tend to describe such people as "a little weird, but harmless.")
Senile is an obsolete term. It used to be used to describe cognitive and behavioral changes that occurred in old age. It is one of the reasons Dementia appears so much more prevalent now -- people weren't diagnosed with it in past generations, they were just considered "senile."
Dementia is a neurological condition. Upon autopsy it can be seen quite plainly in the brain. There are 50 or so kinds of dementia and what shows up in the brain will identify the kind of dementia exactly.
I have a friend -- a math professor -- who wears shorts to teach his classes until the weather absolutely makes that impossible. (His classes sometimes have a betting pool about what day he will first show up in long pants, in the fall.) I guess I'd call him mildly eccentric (or a little weird, but very smart, and harmless, as we'd say in the Midwest).
A person who wears totally inappropriate clothes -- a bathing suit to a wedding or shorts outdoors in the winter -- probably has some cognitive problems, such as dementia.
My grandmother was said to be "senile" the last few years of her life, spent in a nursing home. Today she would be considered to have dementia.
Dementia is thinking the skunk is your pet dog, so you try to give him a bath to get the stink off.
LOL let's keep this going....:-)