That's what it's like?

Bit late in the game here.
I'm an agency carer for elderly dementia patients. It proper varies from person to person of how there dementia is going to effect how they act, intract and experience the world around them.
Many have fixations that occupy their mind. Seen a patient walk in a figure of eight endlessly, another is obsessed with texture and how everything feels.
Another is a sweary walker who is constantly 'on the phone' (talking loudly about the war while walking)

There's nothing to fear about those with dementia other than the reality of it.
The biggest tragedy is an understandable one in that these people are kind of hidden away. You see so much of the finer details of mamy mental illness' or brain disorders is media but dementia is either sugar coated or only the very early stages shown
(Oh mum lost her glasses. Oh mums in the street) skipping to a visit where 'I don't know who you are dear' then funeral.
It doesn't show the reality but I don't blame them.


Don't get me *beep* started on the plainly insulting version of dementia in the Notebook.
Tell a story over several hours to a woman and she'll gain her memory back?!
The thought is in their heads for a few seconds. The woman would literally have lost all trail of what he was saying within a the first sentence.
Let alone rememberin derails of an earlier conversation and repond to it.
Lies.



Was going to be short response. Sorry