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When dementia changes everything about someone you love

My grandmother has dementia and yesterday she forgot my name but remembered every word to a song from 1943 and I do not understand how memory works.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Identity reveals itself as more fluid than we imagine when the mind begins to dissolve.

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