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Advice: Is my husband’s forgetfulness a sign of a bigger issue?

This week, our expert helps a reader who is concerned that her husband’s cognitive function may be cause for alarm

Dementia advisers with the Alzheimer Society of Ireland provide guidance and support. Picture: Getty

Dear Expert,

My husband is forgetting things, with a frequency that I am finding alarming. It’s small stuff, like where he put something, and bigger things, like important dates that we have discussed and agreed upon and he then claims no knowledge of. It’s been happening especially frequently in the last year and has been causing arguments between us. He is just 47 years of age, and has a pronounced family history of dementia. He ...