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How to Navigate a Parent's Fluctuating Memory Loss

My mother has dementia and sometimes she remembers me perfectly and sometimes she thinks I'm her sister who died in 1987.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Watching consciousness fragment challenges our assumptions about the continuity of self and recognition.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Memory — how it works and fails?”

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