[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(among other things)
Also I included the bit about not being able to sort anymore to maybe
increase one's understanding of dementia. I am not sure everyone realizes that that
goes too. A lot may know that the ability to read goes (to make sense out of
the letters, putting them together into words, although the person may still be
able to do small, short words), but not that the ability to sort goes also.
It first starts with being unable to distinguish between white objects (did
some research and found that was fairly common). Dementia not only affects
memory it also starts affecting higher level cognitive functions. I wasn't really
aware myself, until it started happening, that sorting was a higher level
cognitive function. But think about it, tons of work depends on sorting. Filing in
an office, sorting out a sock drawer, folding laundry, most paper work in an
office, doing one's taxes, looking at old photos, filing old letters, well,
the list is endless. So if you can't sort anymore you can't do much anymore. You
can get along without reading if you have to, but you cannot get along
without the ability to sort.
Well, *I* didn't know -- so you educated at least one person. :)
ERNR
