I wasn’t aware of what early signs and symptoms would be.

I have to say at the time, I didn’t know a lot about it I hadn’t studied much about it. She was having trouble remembering things that she was told or doing very shortly after she was told or was doing them. I realized watching her, she wanted to put it in her purse but she wouldn’t remember where she put it three or four minutes later. She was adamant that I was not to take it. She specifically forgot on an airplane where she put her passport. We were traveling together and she kept forgetting certain details of the travel. Initially, it didn’t raise any alarms because we are all aging, we live in a busy world, there are a lot details going on and she was entering into my family, it was an unfamiliar world - people and kids and whatnot - so it didn’t strike me as anything outside of the norm. My mother first began to forget numbers and calendar dates and needed to be told things several times.

When did you first notice your mother was having difficulties with her memory? You have a personal connection to Alzheimer’s. Marcia Gay Harden and mom Beverly Harden (Marcia Gay Harden)