A woman has created a 'business card' for her mum with Alzheimer's to help people understand her diagnosis. <br /><br />Patti Bell, 65, was first diagnosed with the disease in 2021 but was showing early signs in her mid 50s.<br /><br />Patti's young looks meant that people were confused when interacting with her. <br /><br />So daughter Molly Bell Deaton, 43, devised the idea of an informative 'business card'.<br /><br />The small card has Patti's name on the front and on the back a little bio which explains the situation.<br /><br />Molly and her family can discreetly hand the card to the person that interacting with them - without Patti noticing - which alleviates any confusion and anxiety.<br /><br />Molly, who works as an operations manager in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, said: "The card has made the biggest difference as a care giver.<br /><br />"When we would take my mum out, people didn't understand what was going on. They were confused because she looks so young and so healthy. <br /><br />"Normally someone with Alzheimer's or dementia if they're older, people can assume it is the case."<br /><br />Molly came up with the idea after her mum Patti struggled to communicate with staff at a restaurant during a Mother's Day dinner in 2019.<br /><br />She said: "We all went out to a restaurant to celebrate and that experience was pivotal.<br /><br />"Her difficultly ordering and communicating with the staff at the restaurant and her overall heightened anxiety being in public put me on a mission to find something that identified Alzheimer’s to others."<br /><br />Molly didn't find anything out there so she created a card that she could hand out to people her mum interacted with.<br /><br />She said: "It just helps alleviate the stress that we are feeling when we want to communicate what is going on without doing that in front of her.<br /><br />"There isn't anything that identifies Alzheimer's like other diagnoses so we found this the most helpful."
