What Your Loved Ones Perceive with Dementia

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NEW YORK.— In the photograph I am sitting next to my father, with a Christmas tree decorated behind us, while he looks at a book of pictures of horses. I had given it to him as a Christmas gift, knowing that at the Alzhéimer stage where the words were found they were lost but the images still had an impact. What is not seen in the photo is that the rest of my family were also there, something unusual in our broken family. It would be the last ti…