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When your parent with dementia no longer recognizes you

My mom has dementia and yesterday she looked at me with complete terror like I was a stranger trying to hurt her. I cannot stop thinking about that look on her face.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The dissolution of a foundational relationship forces a confrontation with the impermanence of identity and love.

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