How Much a Dementia Patient Needs to Know

Re:How Much a Dementia Patient Needs to Know by scott_s on Thursday February 28, 2019 @10:50AM (#19272169)

Part of the dementia is that you lose the metacognition to understand that your short-term memory is hosed. We don't just become forgetful. We lose cognitive capacity. We're not ourselves minus the ability to remember things. We slowly become a different person.

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Re:How Much a Dementia Patient Needs to Know by mirimir on Thursday February 28, 2019 @06:42PM (#19276570)

Maybe so. I guess that I'll find out.

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Re:How Much a Dementia Patient Needs to Know by scott_s on Thursday February 28, 2019 @06:54PM (#19276654)

My point is that you will not.

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Re:How Much a Dementia Patient Needs to Know by mirimir on Friday March 01, 2019 @02:59AM (#19278695)

Well, I already know that my short-term memory is somewhat hosed. So for stuff that matters to me, I leave myself notes. And for stuff that doesn't matter to me, I just forget. And that's actually better, in a way, because I'm more focused. And less distracted by guilt or whatever.

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