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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There are lots of kinds of dementia in different parts of the brain. Memory is in one place, speech in another. My grandfather lost his executive function, meaning he could remember facts fairly well but he couldn’t remember how to do things like make coffee or tie his shoes. He seemed reasonably normal and lucid if you were just sitting in the den talking, but he needed basically constant care to actually do anything useful. The brain is weird.
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