Even after the memories all, faded away, from the newspapers, translated…
Once I’d inquired an Alzheimer’s patient who the younger woman that accompanied her was? She’d said, “I don’t know her, but she’s very kind toward me.”
After this woman heard, she’d started crying, it’s not just that she was so sad her mother’s illness had progressed to the point that she could no longer recognize her anymore, she was more moved by how her mother remembered her kindness. The seriousness of the deterioration of memories, a decline in cognitive abilities, but still had the emotional memories intact, this, is not rare at all, it’s just, easily, overlooked.
Some of the seriously demented elderly after several foreign caretakers had come and gone from them, although the demented elderly lacked the expressions, but, you can see, which caretaker they’re, closer to, and maybe, it’s how this particular caretaker had been, very tentative toward looking after the older adult, that it’d imprinted into the elderly’s feelings and impressions.
This situation is quite like a child, before the age of two, the child seems have almost, NO memories of what happened in her/his life, but before this age, the child can tell which people are good people, and which ones are bad, like mom; or, who had been mean to her/him, or disciplined her/him, the bad people. Don’t think, tha tkids are too young to remember, they still carried that emotional memory toward everybody they encounter earlier on in life.
The demented elderly would often ask repeated questions that became annoying, they couldn’t take care of themselves, and is very tiring, looking after them, and, some of the caretakers may, lose patience and get loud or showed a bad face. And, although the demented elderly couldn’t remember, but, their hearts are still gentle, and filled with the emotions, and, they may well hold those emotional memories intact, and remembered who was mean to her/him, who was nice, so, the caretakers needed to take the time, to de-stress, this would be more than beneficial to the demented being cared for, as well as for the caretakers themselves.
So, just because the elders can’t remember, doesn’t mean, that they don’t feel, and this just shows, how deeply those feelings were, etched into us, so, DO watch what you say, as well as the tone of your voice, when you talk to the elderly who are, demented, as well as, everybody ELSE you may come into contact with.
Life, the Obstacle Course 