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When dementia patients fail to recognise loved ones
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People with advancing dementia do regularly fail to recognise beloved spouses, partners, children and siblings.
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Paula Span
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NEW YORK – It happened more than a decade ago, but the moment remains with her.
Ms Sara Stewart was talking at the dining room table with her mother, Ms Barbara Cole, 86, in Bar Harbor, Maine. Ms Stewart, then 59, a lawyer, was making one of her extended visits from out of state.
