Dementia
My grandma/grandpa does not recognize me anymore.
Your grandmother or grandfather who has dementia has changed because of this disease.
It can happen that he/she forgets to prepare lunch or preparation is inedible, but grandmother or grandfather is not aware of it because they do not know that they used wrong ingredients in excessive quantities and the food is inadequate and inedible.
Dementia grandmother or grandfather forget that he/she has a grandchild to take care for. Does not recognize their own home and goes to an unknown location, in any weather (snow, rain) without additional clothes and shoes. In the middle of the road, they find themselves in a nightgown, in a thin inappropriate clothing.
Children and adolescents experience dementia in their own way. Children usually do not understand why their grandfather or grandmother doesn't remember them. In the beginning, they think it is fun and it is like some kind of game. Later, as the disease progresses, mixed feelings appear. From fear through to anger. As a child gets older, it is easier to explain to them what kind of the disease is. Humans are visual creatures and to explain to your child that someone sick, and that will not heal, even though outwardly there is nothing to see, is not an easy task . Especially because of the very popular question of a child: "Why?". Adolescents already have so much intellectual breadth to understand that dementia is a disease that can not be healed but it is just progressing.
Dementia is usually not progressing fast, but through the progression of the disease varies the personality of a person. From the failure of social brakes to accusations of theft of personal belongings. Things that would embarrass them before the disease now seem completely normal. All of this represents a considerable psychological pressure on relatives because in the vicinity of them the feel uncomfortable and despite the fact that they love one another they are ashamed . Therefore, they rarely show with them outside the home.
Heaviest in dementia for family members is to understand how they remember the events that took place 10-20-30 years or more ago, but can not remember who visited 2-3 days ago. Therefore, because of the ignorance of the disease sometimes even hostile feelings occurs, but a sick person does not understand them or can not understand because they don't remember the event for which the person is upsetting about.