My mother has dementia. She has her good days and bad. She usuall gets up and listens to her music and watches allot of TV and constantly listens to her music. She usually sleeps 12 to 14 hours a day. She visited her freind across the street at least 5 times per day. And she frequently fed herself P&J sandwiches.

All this has changed.

She now is in bed for 18 hours a day. She sometimes lays awake telling me she needs to sleep some more. She even cried once. She has lost interest in getting up and doing things. She visits her freind maybe once a day and only if her freind talks her out of bed. She no longer asks for her music, and watches TV maybe an hour a day. She does not to anything these days.

I am thinking this is depression. I know this is normal with dementia. But it I'd now that she has lost interest is most everything that was important to her.

What do you guys think? The P.A., who is her doctor, thinks it is not depression. I think it can be treated with meds.