re: Older Employee's Memory is becoming an issue in the office

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I work in a nursing home and it DOES sound like early onset Alzheimers. It sucks. Badly.

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It really does, especially the aggressiveness that suddenly is manifested. 55 is so young, but not unheard of.

Firing these mid 50's-mid 60's entitled arse baby boomers is how we're gonna make this country great again.


Oh you forgot how to do your job? See ya granny.

This is why the Chinese are kicking our butts.

#MakeAmericaGreatAgain

If she truly does have early onset Alzheimer's I'm sure losing this job will be the least of her problems. You need to be honest with her and make her go get checked out. At that point, then you can start evaluating whether or not she will work out as an employee or needs to be let go.

Alzheimer's is a terrible disease and very tough on all people that get affected by it - both the sick person and their family / friends / coworkers.

This hits close to home because my mother is experiencing the same thing. I don't know what to tell you. The older lady probably has a real issue going on upstairs, and she might be totally unaware, or in denial. I hate seeing it for my mom, but she is stubborn and she plays the victim card when telling work stories to me and my siblings, when we see it at home too and know it's most probably her.

If you are close enough to this woman, try to urge her to have some tests run. My mom is older than her, so it may not be the same thing, but it sounds like it.

So far none of her tests have revealed anything, but her mother had it, so I assume it's the first manifestations of what is to come. She's still active, energetic, and catches most things, but it's rough hearing a story for the third time in a night.

It could be a variety of things from a medication she's taking to something along the lines of early-onset Alzheimer's or even a mini-stroke. If she indeed used to be a fantastic employee, I would think you and your company would want to help her out?! Obviously she doesn't realize her memory is fading. My advice is to communicate things to her in writing. Then you can show her in a non-confrontational way that she is indeed missing things. She's not going to respond well to a confrontational approach. Can you imagine what it must feel like to be losing your memory and not realizing it? Anyway, if things get worse I would also contact a spouse or close relative. She likely needs to be seen by a doctor.

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Obviously, a lot of you people have never worked in a fricking office. Some of you are too retarded to read something and say "Wow, I have worked in an office before and had a similar incident occur, here is what we did" So do we terminate her because she has fricking Alzheimer or do we somehow try to help the woman instead of being dickheads like a bunch of you immature pricks suggest? She is a mother, grandparent and widow. Do we ruin her life at her age because she has an issue that she cannot control? That's the whole fricking point of this story

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frick you,, this is the mother fricking OT

We're either a plant operator or work at a McDonalds

That's very sad. I have no idea what I'd do.

My ex boss had a horrible memory that was affecting all of us, but he was 73 and the CEO of the company, so what can you really do?

Fire her... she'll forget, and then you get free labor.

only OT way to do it IMO

Ring out her Depends in a cup and drug test her. If she fails then you're off the hook for unemployment and it's social security's problem.