This, is what dementia had become, the common cold of old age, whereas, in your great grandmas’ times, they don’t live long enough, for dementia to “take up roots”.
But, as medical advances are happening, people are living, longer, longer, and longer, and so, now, you’re having problems that your age old great grannies ain’t even heard of.
And, the progression of dementia is that downward, slippery slope, and, once you’d tripped and fell down, you will, keep on sliding, sliding, sliding, losing MORE and more of what you used to be able to do, what you used to know along the way.
The common cold of old age, there’s still NO cure (not yet, at least!), and, we all have, an equal chance of getting it, because, just like how common colds are spread, ahhhhhhhhhhhhchoooooooooooooooo! Sorry for SPITTING on ya!
The common cold of old age, how can we prevent it? We can’t, we can only make sure, that our minds stay active, when we’re still in charge of it, and, when we’re not, there’s basically, NOTHING any of us can do about it.
and no, not my photograph still…
Life, the Obstacle Course 