The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care

Re:The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care by paulpauper on Monday October 08, 2018 @10:43PM (#18172954)

if you get to that point you would probably not be able to conceptualize that anything is wrong. dementia starts mild, so i suppose someone with mild dementia could consent to suicide, but I think most people would hold out in the possibly of a cure or improved treatments

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Re:The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care by WalterBright on Monday October 08, 2018 @11:08PM (#18173031)

My father had AZ, and knew something was wrong with him through the entire course of the disease.

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Re:The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care by ianai on Monday October 08, 2018 @11:21PM (#18173078)

Same with my grandparents.

Though I do hope I have the type of personality to take permanent lack of context/memory with some form of levity. Laughing at the absurd.

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Re:The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care by WalterBright on Monday October 08, 2018 @11:50PM (#18173189)

There are still interesting, funny moments. Once, I had done something that angered him. He gave me the third degree, yelling at me. I started chuckling. He stopped, and angrily asked why I was laughing. I replied he hadn't yelled at me for 20 years, and it felt oddly good and familiar to have him yelling at me. It was good to have my old man back.

Of course, that took all the steam out of his anger, and he soon slipped back into the mist.

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Re:The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care by thx4allthestuff on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @12:15AM (#18173302)

Thank you for sharing. That was a vivid and moving scene.

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