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Beyond Plaques and Tangles: The Human Face of Dementia
A reflection on dementia, focused on those who remember We often describe dementia using medical language, the language of plaques, tangles and cortical atrophy. These are the things we can see, measure, and define. Yet the real weight of dementia lies quietly in the spaces between people, in the slow fading of a shared life. It is in the silence of a wife who hears her identity slip away as her husband forgets her name. It also resides in the quiet patience of a son who becomes a stranger to the man who once taught him how to hold a […]
