[ThisLittleLightofMine]

It is really interesting that dementia patients can read, it boggles the mind, but even a lady I know with Picks disease will read closed captioning in the TV.

[Freee-dame]

Dementia that is caused by multiple little strokes, called vascular events, do not necessarily have the same characteristics as Alzheimer’s. Various parts of the brain are damaged or destroyed while other parts still function. For example, a person sometimes can still read even if they cannot express themselves at all.

After each such a vascular event, a person suffering this kind of dementia often improves a bit, though not usually back to the level before that most recent event. Once a cognitive function is damaged in an Alzheimer’s patient, it’s seldom improves at all.

[Yaelle]

They can read til the very end. I would sit with my dad when he was really like an infant, and he’d love to look at a magazine with me. He would point at pictures of dogs or animals and smile. But he also pointed happily at ads that said “new a/c unit 30% off!” Dad always loved a sale.