Alzheimer's patients lose touch with reality, memories, loved ones
They had been like that all day, sitting on the couch — Jackie's eyes shut, his head on Rose's shoulder. In their minds, forever together.
"She thought he was her husband, Pierre," Suan Grant said. "He thought she was me."
Until that day, Suan Grant had struggled to remind Jackie of the life he and Suan had lived together: meeting in Jackie's native Jamaica , falling in love, marrying, surviving civil unrest ...
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