Personality and Dementia

I have met 100s of people with Dementia and not one person is the same . It stands to reason that as a persons memory is going and they are going back to a time when they were younger their personality will change to a certain extent .(If a person is suffering from TIAS this can indeed change ones personality )some of us are dancers some of us accountants, artists ,actors ,pilots the list goes on some of us have extremely strong personalities and like to socialize and others prefer their own company .Dementia does not randomly pick out certain people its across the board people with extremely high intelligence and people with no social skills at all. As the disease takes hold and it destroys their memories remember them as you knew them and what they like to do if the person was a dancer then dance, I passionately believe its about the person and not the disease so lets all sing in the rain for as long as we can.

Marina Barker