[rickcarlino]

My mom is several years into Alzheimer’s and is at a point where she requires our help for nearly every daily task. She got a hearing aid put in last year and at the same time, she walks so slowly we often need to bring a wheelchair with us to get daily tasks done when she is around. There is definitely something going on here.

[wingspar]

My mother had bad knees before dementia took her mentally so always walked slow, we have friends who’s parents had no walking problems and were ‘escape risks’.

A walker might help as slowness is sometimes due to fear of falling.

My mother used a wheeled walker with hand brakes for several years before we switched her to the no-wheel kind.