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How to navigate time confusion in dementia care

I am caring for my father with dementia and he lives in about six different decades simultaneously and I cannot figure out which timeline to meet him in on any given day.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Cognitive decline scrambles temporal coherence, requiring caregivers to become translators between different versions of when.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Aging and time acceleration?”

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