Lessons I need to learn. Dementia. I have more than a few neighbors who are heading down the dementia road. These people are still charmingly social. THey still live in their own apartments – not in Alzheimer’s Lock Up. They just have ZERO short term – as in the last 60 seconds – memory. They will ask you the same question over and over again. And, each time you answer – it is all new information to them.
What is it like – inside their brains? We can imagine blind by closing our eyes. We can imagine deaf by stopping up our ears. We can even ride around in a wheelchair and experience physical frailty. But how can we comprehend what it is like to sink into the the abyss of increasing mental frailty?
Living in the asylum – opens up different avenues of wonder.
I hope to avoid the dementia ramp to oblivion.
Hi Peg,
I like all of you pictures of the past days, the autumn, the purse (nice colors), the bat cave, the bus, the stone, etc…
Yes, dementia, my beloved grand-mother had that… 🙁
At the begining she was understanding that she was losing his memory. Sometimes we laughed together about that…
At the upper level, maybe it helps her. She forgot the death of my grand father and that she was in an asylum (she thought they were in vacation in an hotel room, and that he was occupied to search something in his car). But she was remembering me 🙂
What is most important, reality, or perception we have of reality ? where is the truth ?
Hopefully, not everybody sinks in dementia.
Have a nice day.
laurent