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When dementia makes you question who your loved one really is now

My grandmother has dementia and sometimes she does not recognize me but other times she is completely lucid and I do not know which version is real anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Progressive loss of memory challenges our understanding of identity and forces us to love someone who is disappearing.

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