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Has anyone's LO with Dementia/Alzheimer's experienced the 'Doorway effect'? For instance your LO is watching TV in the den. They go to the bathroom in another room&then forgot where they previouslywere?

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"Doorway effect" can happen to anyone, any age, any mental capacity.
But for someone with dementia this is one of the reasons that they need to be supervised 24/7/365
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I think that the OP means that after the LO goes into the other room, they forget which room they had just left.

My mother does that. She has dementia.
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Heck, I don't need dementia to have that. It happens to everyone, because the thought occurs in one setting, but going into another room becomes a new setting.
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Catskie62 Sep 2022
Im not talking about getting sidetracked.
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