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How cognitive decline affects shared natural rituals

My dad used to wake me up for every meteor shower when I was little but he has dementia now and doesn't remember, so I watch them alone and feel like an orphan.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The loss of shared meaning-making around natural events becomes a form of anticipatory grief.

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“Where Are You with Natural phenomena — migration bloom eclipse?”

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