Recent conversations with clients prompted me to write this, its been a recurring topic in my line of work as there are a lot of reasons that someone who deals with a chronic illness might have memory projects.

Description of the difference between senility and Alzheimer's/Dementia in short term memory.

Imagine a person who is getting along in years puts the kettle on the stove and turns on the burner, shortly thereafter they have to pee, so they go to the restroom. They remember to wash their hands, and on the way back to the kitchen they get a phone call. it's a friend asking them if they'd like to have dinner later in the week, they confirm dates and then hang up the phone. they have forgotten they put the kettle on and only upon hearing the whistle and walking back into the kitchen the kettle triggers their memory of putting it on and their internal process might sound something like this "God I am losing it, I can't believe I forgot I put the kettle on; if I keep doing stuff like this up I am going to burn the house down"

A person with Alzheimer's/Dementia would go through the same process, each event that would require the use of short term memory erases events from earlier that day. By the time they hear the kettle whistle and walk back into the kitchen the memory of them putting the kettle on was replaced by the phone call from a friend and upon seeing it the next logical thought would be "someone is in my house and turned on the stovetop."

Hopefully this helps us differentiate between a lapse in memory and Alzheimer's/Dementia diagnosis

In terms of TKM we would primarily work on E.S. 20 for improving all types of memory.

for Alzheimer's/Dementia in addition to E.S. 20 we would work Bladder, E.S. 22 and Large Intestine sequences according to whatever came up in pulses.

Cheers,
-Evan