Getting dressed is tiring. At times, it is difficult to think and then speak properly. Alzheimer's Disease is a subtraction process. We may forget your name and who we are and what we are doing. Yet, we remember love.
Love seems to be the most basic and primary essential.
It is important to realise that, despite the mental problems, an Alzheimer patient can still retain emotions. For example, my wife's mother could still readily play the piano and accompany her young grandchildren's singing, despite having Alzheimer's Disease of such severity that she could not string together two intelligible words. Dementia in general is associated with an intellectual deterioration in an adult which is severe enough to interfere with both their work and their social skills. The changes in mental processes not only involve disturbances in memory but also in perception, the ability to learn, to solve problems and to think abstractly and make judgements. Senile dementia is simply dementia in the aging adult.