He has to deal every day with his own numerous private gaffes, dumb mistakes and forgetfulness. The public sees just a tiny percentage of his senility-caused blunders. He has to know that he is damaged -- working around his own cognitive decline is his life.
“He has to deal every day with his own numerous private gaffes”
Dementia patients don’t dwell on events, they can remember their Mother’s peanut butter and honey on a biscuit when they were kids after school, but they could be standing in the middle of the room in their bathrobe fresh out of the shower and can’t remember when the last time they took a shower was.
It’s very strange, and then it’s sad... unless you dave a hellraiser for a dementia patient, they have to be restrained.
We had two dementia patients who were kindly in our family and sadly, at some point they don’t know anyone.