Question

Mary, age 82, keeps insisting that someone has been sneaking into her apartment and turning on her stove when she isn’t looking. Her family has noticed that Mary has been more and more forgetful lately, and now she has begun rambling in her speech and using many word substitutions, like “horse” for “dog.” Mary is likely to be suffering from _________

Answer 1

Answer: Alzheimer's disease

Explanation:common symptoms that one will experience are forgetfulness

Or memory loss that may result to a person asking the same thing over and over for example she keeps thinking someone keeps opening her stove; which means she is also becoming suspicious that is also one of the signs of dementia.

Problems with communicating correctly is also a sign where she is found rambling which is a sign of forgetting some words or using them correctly.

The age also is the contribution to being affected by dementia.