Of course, you do.  The problem is not the domain of older people. 100% of us have got it. 

   My three-year old grandson got upset recently because he forgot where he put one of his toy trucks. My thirty-year old grand nephew forgot where he parked his car twice on a recent vacation. A forty-year old doctor/golf partner friend often forgets where he put his locker room key.

   In none of these cases does anyone suggest these people have "memory problems."

   But, when I briefly forgot where I had parked my car at a wedding recently a friend in his forties quickly said, "Senior moment, Erie?"

   It is time for younger people to quit tagging older people with the "Senior Moment" thing every time a name is forgotten. And time for we seniors to default to that excuse & thus contribute to our own anxieties about dementia. 

   Have you considered how many names, dates & other information flood the memory bank of the average seventy-year-old? 

   Obviously, none of this is to make light of the genuine problem of Alzheimers. Clearly, if I forgot the names of my own children I would need to see a doctor. 

   In the meantime, take comfort in the fact that occasionally forgetting names & misplacing keys does not indicate a disease process. It means you are human.

-Erie Chapman 

Photograph: "Reed" by Jennifer Chapman