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Answer: Since her stroke was only 6 weeks ago, you may find that her memory will continue to improve some over the next few months spontaneously. To help improve this process, you might try showing her more recent photo albums or videos and telling her information about family members. You didn't mention if she has problem understanding what someone is telling her, but if she does then keep words simple and short to make them easier to understand.

Sometimes people can have expressive aphasia (it's difficult to say words or the words coming out don't make sense) and some have receptive aphasia (don't understand what their being told) or both. Obviously, if she only has expressive aphasia, it will be easier to educate her and help improve her memory. If she also has receptive aphasia, then the process will be more difficult. If she can read, you could also keep a board in her room with the date and maybe some other pertinent information (how old she is, her address, what city she lives in, names of family members, etc.)

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