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* In ''Fanfic/JohannaMasonTheyWillNeverSeeMeCry'', (found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8061542/4/Johanna-Mason-They-Will-Never-See-Me-Cry here]]), Flora, District 11's oldest victor, runs into Johanna during the 73rd Hunger Games. Flora thinks that she's mentoring for the 71st Hunger Games (Johanna's games). She expresses happy surprise that Johanna won, before remembering that if Johanna won, then the two District 11 tributes that year who she thinks she's still mentoring didn't.

* During the final arc of ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'', it's revealed that [[spoiler:Gan'an Shinomiya]] is suffering from dementia due to a stroke they had the previous fall. And while they still have periods of lucidity, [[spoiler:he notes that Shirogane's plan to save Kaguya from her ArrangedMarriage by having him alter his will is doomed to failure since any further alterations wouldn't hold up in court.]]

* ''Everywhere at the End of Time'' by Music/LeylandKirby is a six and a half hour long series of deeply unsettling ambient songs about the fall into Alzheimer's disease, starting with ''It's Just a Burning Memory'' representing the very earliest onset, and ending with ''Place in the World Fades Away'', which is thought to represent the person finally dying from it.

* ''Series/BlackMirror'': PlayedForDrama in "The Playtest." The protagonist of the episode, Cooper, lost his father to Alzheimer's and succumbing to it himself (or even worse, losing his mother to it) is one of his deepest, most personal fears. The brain-altering horror game he was playtesting uses this against him and it completely shatters his mind, Room101 style.

* In the third season of ''Series/TheStoryOfTracyBeaker'', we are introduced to Jackie, who has come into care after her grandfather, who was her main carer, develops Alzheimer's and can no longer look after her. At first, Jackie has a really hard time accepting this as she loves him dearly and doesn't want to lose him as he's her only living relative [[spoiler: until he passes away in Season Four]], but gradually comes to terms when she sees how badly affected he is.

* An [[OscarBait Emmy Bait]] episode of ''Series/TheWestWing'' sent C.J. Cregg home to visit with her father, whose struggling with Alzheimer's. Notable in that it depicts and describes the condition accurately. Also, it's heartbreaking.

* One episode of ''Series/{{Community}}'' had Pierce join a gang of seniors who kept being jerks to people, relying on their age to get away with it. One of their gags was pretending to be lost and senile so that random cops would take pity on them. This was subverted when one of them actually ''did'' have a serious lapse... while driving a car. Ultimately not played for laughs.

* Goldie Delicious from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is a distant relative of the Apples; she is portrayed as an elderly woman that lives with dozens of cats in a dusty house filled with junk. It's never stated but she seems to fit perfectly within the symptoms of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_syndrome Diogenes syndrome.]]

* Inverted in one version of the scary story where a babysitter notices an UncannyValley statue who turns out to be an escaped murderer. The babysitter notices the statue, calls the family, and the grandfather who answers tells her they don't have a statue. The babysitter is about to take the kids and run when the father calls back: they ''did'' order a statue, but thanks to her they know the grandfather has Alzheimer's.

* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRings'': Played with in regard to King Durin the III. He is mentally sound, but too old-fashioned in the way he does the things, getting stuck in the past and never accepting new ideas. Disa considers her father in law to be a "lice-bearded, uncaring, old fool" who has grown "too old, too suspicious, his mind too feeble", at hearing he refused to help Elrond. She swears to her husband that they will depose him of his power one day and inherit his kingdom.

* ''Series/Recap/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRings'': Played with in regard to King Durin the III. He is mentally sound, by too old-fashioned in the way he does the things. Disa considers her father in law to be a "lice-bearded, uncaring, old fool" who has grown "too old, too suspicious, his mind too feeble", at hearing he refused to help Elrond. She swears to her husband that they will depose him of his power one day.

* One interpretation of Granddad's tall tales in ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' is that he is suffering from the early stages of dementia.

* Grandpa Dave is implied to have an early stage of this in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode, "Grandpa Dave's Memory Album".

** Mr. Burns, Homer's elderly employer, [[DependingOnTheWriter dips his toe in and out of this trope]]. Sometimes he's quite clever and shrewd, but other times he seems unaware that it's not still the 19th Century, and he's never able to remember who Homer is, even after being reminded that "[[TheMainCharactersDoEverything all the recent events of your life have revolved around him in some way]]." This is also played for laughs.

-->''[[Music/TheCaretaker Post-Awareness Stage 6 is without description.]]''

** He (and Clint) also has a tendency to forget people's names, calling Lucretia "Lucinda", and Istus "Isthmus". He even ''forgets his own surname.'' [[UpToEleven Twice.]]

* In season 2 of ''WesternAnimation/TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood'', Badger's senility is PlayedForDrama. He mistakes Mossy for Mole, even though Vixen tries to explain to him that Mole [[spoiler: has passed away]], but he doesn't pay attention to her and Fox says that Badger can't assimilate it. Vixen convinces Mossy to continue pretending that he is his father of him since that makes Badger very happy, [[spoiler: when Badger is dying, he rambles and believes that he is in his old settlement of him in Farthing Wood before he dies.]]

* In season 4 of ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'', [=BoJack=]'s mother Beatrice has succumbed to dementia, which [=BoJack=] very reluctantly deals with since [[AbusiveParents she wasn't the best mother to him]]. She confuses him for a maid named Henrietta and tends to get the past and present day mixed up. The episode "Time's Arrow" is a WholeEpisodeFlashback to her youth as shown through the lens of [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness her deteriorating mind]], with disturbing details like background characters' faces being completely blank and the letters on signs glitching and getting mixed up. [[spoiler: By season 5, she has died from it.]]

* Absolutely, positively '''[[AdultFear not]]''' PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/BlackMirror'' ''"Playtest"''. The protagonist of the episode, Cooper, lost his father to Alzheimer's and succumbing to it himself (or even worse, losing his mother to it) is one of his deepest, most personal fears. The brain-altering horror game he was playtesting uses this against him and it completely shatters his mind, Room101 style.