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How to communicate important news to someone with dementia

My mother has dementia and sometimes doesn't recognize me, and I keep waiting for a lucid moment to tell her about my divorce but those moments are getting rarer.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Progressive cognitive loss creates a shrinking window for meaningful connection, intensifying the urgency of unshared truths.

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