I think my Granny's lost it...

Aw, that's sad. Hopefully, everything turns out fine in the end.

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Consider talking to a nutritionist. Sometimes a change in ones diet can affect the way our mental outlook is. Also - if she is on new medication - it could also not be mixing together correctly, or even might need to be balanced out by diet again.

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Just a few weeks ago my grandfather was experiencing the same thing. He thought it was 1980, even though I was in the room with him, and he recognized and remember me, and I wasn't born until 1982. The assumption was Alzheimer's, but after further examination discovered he had a small hole in his lung (which collapsed later that day) and the dementia was related to the bodily stress of oxygen depravation. He's at a nursing home in recovery at the moment and actually doing really well, he should be going home pretty soon.

You just never know. Two weeks ago all thought we were nearing the end and he'd be in the nursing home with severe dementia for the remainder of his life and now he's just fine.

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Older people getting really disoriented in the hospital.
My Dad who's 88 went into the hospital for a stent procedure. He didn't remember being there, was kicking the nurses and asked me "What am I ? A snake?"

Once he got out his mental status cleared so that when the social worker asked him "Where did you come from?' He replied "My mother and father had a good time and there I was."

Two weeks out of the hospital his mental status is normal.
Hope all goes well with your Grandmother.

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