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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The longer the memory stays, the harder it is to erase. Dementia damages more recent memories first. So a person you met 30 years ago will be forgotten before the alphabet you learned 80 years ago. And if dementia progresses so much that you forget the alphabet… well, you’d be a vegetable at this point.
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