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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They do. They eventually forget how to articulate sentences, then words. Eventually they forget how to swallow, and this is what ultimately kills them, if pneumonia or some other earlier complication doesn’t kill them first.
Source: am an MD.
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