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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
seems shitty to lock the old man up , but i can't believe he didnt know what was going on.. if he could drive and find his way back home ( i.e. owned a car , filled it with gas etc ) he knows what was going on..
Maybe if he jumped into someone else's car or something..
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Dementia affects different people's memory in different ways. I'll bet most people on this board have a relative or family friend over 70 with some form of dementia. If he knew what was going on he would have stopped to help the guy or pushed him off the windshield and drove off.
The problem is twofold:
Florida saying you are ok to drive if you are over 80 as long as you pass your eyesight test and the fact that he wasn't under some kind of care if his disease had progressed that much.