I have a relative who has done some strange things lately. She is 60. I mentioned to someone that I think she may be getting alzheimer's and they said she is too young. She forgets things that happened recently, but seems to remember 40 years ago really well. We were at a fast food place and she got really agitated because she couldn't find a "Big Mac" on the menu...we were not at McDonalds. When we told her that, she got agitated and insisted we were at McDonalds. Do Alzheimers patients forget where they are? She handed me a magazine one day and asked me if I wanted to look at it. So I browsed through it a minute and put it down. She picked it up asked me if I wanted to look at it while she handed it to me. She had just asked me that! She also asks us to repeat things and she writes them down, only to call and ask the same thing again. Her mother had alzheimers, so I am suspicious; however, other family members don't think anything of these situations. They think she is just forgetful sometimes. Is there any harm in waiting to get a diagnosis until things get worse, if in fact they do?