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How to find meaning in caring for someone with dementia

My mother has dementia and does not recognize me anymore and I wonder what the point is of visiting someone who is essentially gone.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Progressive cognitive loss challenges the relational basis of care and questions the purpose of continued connection.

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