Question? Do dementia patients lose their

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9. No

My mother had Alzheimers.
What happens is that they are not in touch with reality.
She was the daughter of Russian immigrants.
She was living in a memory care unity where most of the other patients were Italian
One day when I came to visit, she greeted me as her "paisan ."
The term she always used before wan "lantzman."
I laughed and asked her what the old country was and she replied "Italy of course?"

Another time she asked me if I ever met myself (real name.)
I said "No, tell me about her."