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Stories From The Past

Comments in addition to outbursts from Alzheimer's patients are often laced alongside truth in addition to fiction. Or, they may last factually accurate but chronologically scrambled.


s patients are often laced alongside truth in addition to fiction Stories from the Past
By Elaine C Pereira


Fact or Fiction inward Someone alongside Dementia?

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People living alongside dementia often drift dorsum inward fourth dimension in addition to alive inward the past. For several precious weeks, my woman raise who succumb from Alzheimer’s Disease, talked almost her childhood in addition to her mother, my Grandmother Lillian!



I was solely half dozen years old when my grandmother died. The three-hour stimulate that separated our respective homes did non afford me opportunities to genuinely know her rattling well. I cherished the brief menstruum when my mom recounted charming antidotes of Grandma every bit if the events were playing out inward existent time.

It was rattling bitter sweetness learning almost my Grandmother through the eyes of a child, my ain mom.

Fact Blended alongside Fiction

Although definitely non current, many comments in addition to outbursts direct keep a semblance of truth laced alongside fiction. Or they may last factually accurate but chronologically scrambled.
“Your (deceased) dad’s inward the parking lot. Please allow him in.” 
“I direct keep to human face hither for Shirley (former co-worker). We’re supposed to operate on this (project) together.” 
“There are groceries inward the trunk. We direct keep to convey them in.” (My woman raise standing close a auto to the paper carrier at iv am).
These remarks are only a sample of a virtually endless listing that families in addition to caregivers direct keep heard from their loved ones alongside dementia. Most often they reverberate genuine experiences from their past, albeit distorted.


There’s no ‘t’ inward mozzarella!

“There’s no ‘t’ inward mozzarella you lot idiot!” Vera blurted out, shaking her fist.

Vera’s immature lady Camille snickered a piffling when staff told her almost Vera’s rant. Where had this foreign but accurate remark come upward from?

Vera was a high schoolhouse graduate in addition to had worked on/off at a local diner spell raising 3 kids, Camille said. Vera wasn’t a teacher; didn’t direct keep an advanced degree; no culinary grooming in addition to every bit far every bit Camille could think non a bully speller.

Vera’s critique of a frequently, mispronounced give-and-take is harmless. Other mental excursions to places unknown acquire out families bewildered. And acting on neurologically flawed input tin last injurious.


At the community presentations I do, families in addition to caregivers part fascinating stories they’ve heard. It’s those that seem to direct keep no factual dry reason at all that are most puzzling.

s patients are often laced alongside truth in addition to fiction Stories from the Past

Alzheimer’s is a neurological affliction in addition to every bit such hallucinations in addition to delusions are non uncommon. Living inward someone else’s by or 1 that appears to last completely fabricated is non uncommon either. Be tolerant when your loved 1 takes on the persona of a fictional grapheme or event.


“I’ll last running gunshot inward the (wild) west.” (Uncle to nephew circa 2016)

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