# How would you describe watching someone slip away from dementia? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 30, 2023, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-describe-watching-someone-slip-away-from-dementia/984789 "2023-05-30T21:53:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 21
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2023, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-describe-watching-someone-slip-away-from-dementia/984789/21 "2023-06-01T22:10:38Z")
For those of you whose parent or whoever is still lucid, but highly forgetful, can you have a conversation about their own experience of being themselves now? What is it like to be a “faded” person in @veryfrank’s apt terms? I asked this question six years ago and got a little useful info: > [@Dementia - Reports from the Inside??](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dementia-reports-from-the-inside/788656): > > I’m seeking info on any research or quality reporting on the subjective experience of dementia sufferers. IOW, what do they think of their condition? How aware are they as they descend the functional ladder? Once mostly out of it, is their blank time internally placid, internally turbulent, or simply absent? Does anyone really know? I’m mostly interested in ordinary senile dementia, with a side helping of TIA- and stroke-related brain dysfunction. Not specifically interested in Alzheimer’s b… I started that thread in the early decline of my aged MIL. She died last year and was still quite capable mentally on her last day. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-describe-watching-someone-slip-away-from-dementia/984789)._