Suggestions Strongly encourage your family member to carry a notebook. In this notebook, he can record important events and appointments. Work with him so that he has a procedure for organizing his information, such as appointments on one side of the page, and notes about that appointment on the other side. Have him use an alarm watch as a cue to look at his notebook periodically for an appointment. Try to assure him that it is okay to write things down.
People make many judgments about others by the way they communicate.
You may notice obvious or subtle changes in your family member's conversation. He may also no longer understand humor, and therefore may not appreciate jokes. One of the higher levels of verbal comprehension is humor. That is why so many therapy sessions attempt to address this subtle area. Your family member may feel left out of jokes, and by the same token may not understand the subtleties of situation comedies.