Are they lying? Are they fantasizing? Why do people with dementia so often say things that obviously are not true? We hear families trying to cope wit...

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We wanted Memo to be perfectly usable by a person who was 90+years old, had never used computers, and could not learn easily because of memory loss. Memo had to be simple, simple, simple!

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Time after time I hear this story: one adult child, often the eldest daughter or the child who still lives in the same town with Mom or Dad, becomes the primary caregiver, while the other siblings fade into the background.

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We all take our ability to remember things for granted, until we see the devastating effects when that memory is impaired. Few people understand what it is like to care for a family member with short-term memory loss until they have experienced it.

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I got a lesson a while ago about the importance of memory. As long as memory function remains intact, we’re hardly aware of it. It just performs little miracles in the background, soundlessly and without any attention, like a million computer calculations guiding a missile to Mars. When memory fails, however, there’s lots of sputtering.

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An elderly gentleman was standing near me in the canned meat aisle. I was trying to guess which can of tuna might be less than half water; he was reminiscing about Spam.

“Spam,” he said. “Your mother used to fry it with sliced potatoes and onions. I think they were the little sweet white onions. Not the kind you get now. I think she used to put a little butter in the pan.”

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