Why do people with dementia forget things like people/events, but not things like the alphabet or relatively simple grammar? Or do they, and it’s just not really shown in western media?
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It can depend on the type of dementia e.g Alzheimer’s, lewy body, vascular etc. They affect different regions of the brain and in different ways. Also short term memory tends to go before long term so even if the affected individual has known you for say 30 years, they have known the alphabet a lot longer.
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