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How to navigate a loved one's shifting sense of time

My dad has Alzheimer's and sometimes he thinks I'm his brother from 50 years ago and I don't know whether to correct him or just live in his timeline.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Witnessing cognitive decline forces confrontation with the fragility of temporal continuity and identity.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Historical consciousness and temporal depth?”

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