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 absolutely do. My grandmother suffered with Lewey Body Dementia for around 5-6 years before she died. At first she just became a bit scatty and have slightly incoherent trains of thought which we all just blamed on old age. The first sign that something was really wrong was when she started struggling to put basic sentences together in English and she would start switching more and more back to her mother tongue of Hindi. Eventually she stopped making sense in Hindi too. But in quite late stages of her dementia she would start trying to recite poetry.
Dementia can also affect you not just mentally but physically, parts of your body just simply stops responding to your brain.
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