DEMENTIA: When they don’t recognize you anymore: Dementia study looks at loved ones’ responses

DEMENTIA: When they don’t recognize you anymore: Dementia study looks at loved ones’ responses 
Penn Live - Nation & World News; by Paula Span, KFF Health News; 5/4/25 
It happened more than a decade ago, but the moment remains with her. Sara Stewart was talking at the dining room table with her mother, Barbara Cole, 86 at the time, in Bar Harbor, Maine. Stewart, then 59, a lawyer, was making one of her extended visits from out of state. ... “She said to me: ‘Now, where is it we know each other from? Was it from school?’” her daughter and firstborn recalled. “I felt like I’d been kicked.” Stewart remembers thinking, “In the natural course of things, you were supposed to die before me. But you were never supposed to forget who I am.” Later, alone, she wept.