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i guess even with dementia somethings just stick with us

@@billinbrigz2796 True, I have worked with elderly who suffer dementia and whether they worked on the rail roads, in the post office etcetera they would remember there professions and certain periods in there lives very well, one lady was a debutant and another the daughter of a grounds keeper to a grand duke. I could talk and talk on this it is so sad of course specially when they get confused and want to leave but cant, I find it amazing to listen to the stories they have to tell.

short term memory is affected most isn't?

there are often cases of this. sometimes they totally forget they ever did certain things and then when they were tested on those things or jobs they did they do it perfectly. what's funny is they'll say "gee this must be some beginners luck or i'm just that good." a sad thing nonetheless though. :(

This is how my dad is too. He's also a dentist. He talks and is not understandable, cant carry on a conversation or follow one. But ask him to look at your teeth, and the original man suddenly appears and converses intelligently about it.

Or a really good actor that played a dentist... HMMMMMM

yes, I think so.

Long term repetitive memory vs short term memory

@@andyt2k Yeah, the way he examined the mouth is exactly textbook for a dentist- he even notes the overbight but says it's not an issue, like a still practicing dentist would. It's both a shame and a gift these people can't remember were the door is but could recite all the intricacies of their field they learned in school when they were twenty. Reminded me of seeing those dementia afflicted musicians that can still play their instrument but probably could barely hold a spoon. Long term muscle memory vs. short term motor control.

Agreed. He talks to a demented dentist the same way he talks to a Philadelphia street boss.

Nothing moving about dementia anyone who has dementia should be put to sleep id rather be dead then have dementia awful disease

He probably DID make a great dentist.

K abed same. i work with elderly people with dementia, everyday I get more and more scared of getting it.

At least he believes he is still working as a dentist. It is so sad to see a brilliant mind decaying.

@TheInkinJapan just thinking he is 8yrs older than my mother. She looks 50 to me and I can't imagine how she would cope waking up like this in 8years. *Touchwood*

@TheInkinJapan My mother is 86, worked for her whole life, raised 2 children on her own, has her hearing, her eyesight, doesn't need a walker, but she now has dementia which is worse than any physical ailment in my opinion. It's the cruelest disease and the worst way to be remembered.

Well, get used to it, welcome to the real world. EVERY news reporter is like that.

Haha, man's still got his touch. xDD

He just wanted some tooth

typical randy dentist.

Old boy still got that confidence

A lot of older men get super sexual towards women

You realise that "re-directing" is essentially just distracting the patient long enough so that they forget that they want to leave the facility. It's basically entrapment. Obviously I'm not saying it's a bad thing, these people are potentially a danger to themselves unless institutionallised.

@@BaldMancTwat You realize you’re a fucking loser and should go get a job or something?

That’s why I try and exercise and stay socially active

It looks cute but this is the worst thing for men with dementia inside wards like this. In 80% of dementia patients libido lowers a lot or dies out completly, 10% are the same and in 10% it elevates. Usualy starts with masturbation in privacy, then public with shame, then without shame.. And then the worst part, sexual advances, usualy to the weakest patients in a ward and to the staff which is mostly female. It escalates very fast and usualy ends in actual assaults and psihiatric "jail", close wards with heavy medication

@Dale Longwood my bad, psychiatry

@@jackakascko How interesting. I never knew that there was a connection between dementia and libido. But then again there is probably something more than increased libido as there are a lot of ultra horny guys running around but they're not masturbating in public.

Karen Campbell sorry for your loss. My dad is at the early stages of the end of dementia, its heart breaking seeing him not smile like he used to. But like you said we get the occasional bit of craic out of him. I hope you're well and have a good life. All the best.

@@TheDGAF06 it is a hard time and there will be times you feel like your heart is breaking. Cherish the good moments as there will still be many, make him laugh, give him comfort and listen to him even if he stops making sense. Kia Kaha (NZ for stay strong)

Both my parents mom 67 dad 80 have had strokes this month and both are showing starting signs. Im 25 im there only care provider and i have 2 kids i feel so destroyed.

Lloydy why would it be hard to admit that because you are a man?

The 'host' is British filmmaker Louis Theroux. Lovely man, and very good at his job.

I don't even believe he was 69 in this video. He has no wrinkles.

I still think about this lovely man. I too was moved to tears by his predicament. I worked in the community for 20 years and helped care for many who had Alzheimers. It was desperately sad to see their decline, challenging at times. I often cried in private. Many still affect me even now, many years after they passed. One lady, very active in her local community. Sweet. Kind. Brilliant. In her kitchen one day, all the baking stuff on the table, oven on full blast. Apron on... She looked at me and simply stated: "I want to make a cake but I don't know how..." She, who had, in her lifetime, made many many hundreds of cakes. It was profoundly upsetting to hear her admit she could do so no longer. I couldn't even stay to help her and make sure she got it safely out of the oven due to time restrictions. A social care disgrace. She eventually went into care full time where I hope she was helped to bake her cakes.

adrames He’d otherwise be retired and doing whatever he wanted. Volunteering, golfing, advising, fishing, helping and enjoying his kids and grand kids. But instead...he was unfortunate Very very sad

You know, in the not too distant future, there will be a cure for this. There have been some interesting studies using the mushroom lion's mane and detoxing heavy metals from the brain.

Sadly Gary is no longer with us

@@Troll_the_Trolls when did he pass?

@@Person-gk5ee 2015, I believe about 1 year and a half after the program was aired

once a man always a man no pc bullshit when your inhibitions are shot.

It seemed like harmless banter. He may not have a full deck of cards, but he still has a sense of humour.

@@Aerojet01 I agree, ppl are too sensitive now days

One of my grandfathers had dementia for the last 1-2 years of his life, and despite having been moved to a nursing home and forgotten a lot of things he was still able to immediately recognise me, and even say my full name. Maybe people with dementia can more easily remember things that are very close to them in some personal way.

@@Peter_1986 No most of the time they sort of remember family they just don't know who they are. Like thinking their husbands are their father, brother, son, uncle. Eventually as time goes on they forget even how to speak. Each dementia patient is different, as each gets affected by if differently, then to add the different types of dementia they can have, progression (some months others years even decades) and stage of dementia. The last stage is they are bed bound not knowing how to speak, walk etc. They regress back to being infants, with a rare word or sentence being said. Yous must of been close, or somehow you triggered his memory. But they can be extremely close to a loved one, pet or object and eventually not remeber or remember them periodically.

That is what is crazy. My grandfather got diagnosed with dementia. After he fell and went into the hospital. While there he completely lost it. He was bringing up situations and people from the past and he knew all the details of it.

deep.

That's what getting old is like. Eventually even if you are free to move wherever you'd like, your body becomes your prison.

@@aron1936 """eventually"""

@@dopaminecloud """""Domapine Cloud""""""

@@aron1936 haha

lol gold

At least he still had his sense of humour.

It's just a fact.

Funny how dementia can rob you of so much but still leave some of your wit! Thank God for small favors...

omg that reminds me of something my grandmother did with alzheimers i wont repeat but im hurting from laughing.

I'd kill myself straightaway

His form scares me less than some other fates of getting old, though. He seems fairly happy, and that’s the main thing.

both are jewish

@@asylkz suprisingly, Louis theroux isn't Jewish, he just looks it because he's part italian and Italians and Jews look similar

@@sellotapeandbublegum325 Well, racially speaking he is definitely part semitic. Italians are a rather diverse group when it comes to ehtnical background and there's lots of semite admixture in the south and south east. That said, i don't think the dentist is semitic looking at all. Could pass as a dane or something actually.

Old train engine got some steam left in him!

Why? The ego and memories are just projections from our true self, they're not who we really are. If you notice, they all retained some essence of who they were. You are not your thoughts or what's in your brain, you are an eternal being. When they die, they go back to the source.

+The Forms what are you talking about

Hes talking absolute nonsense, new age mumbo jumbo with no scientific or empirical evidence to the contrary. By all means believe what you want, but keep it too yourself, do not talk with authority on something that can NEVER be known to be true.

Sure, Gary, because your materialist view of reality is based on a metaphysical mumbo-jumbo theory of some alternate dimension of pure matter. All you've ever known is consciousness, and all we ever know or experience is consciousness. It is the ontological primitive, not matter. You moron.

+The Forms you seem like you'd fit right there with the dentist mate

69.......isn't very old now a days no.

Classic white man line haaa

Once a Indian always an Indian

My mother is 61 and she has dementia. It's awful.

You can't really prevent dementia, that's the thing.

There was a lady in this documentry at 49 😣 with a 9 year old girl

He was a dentist! That's VERY active, you can't change dna and genes.

There are various studies that indicate that certain activities and life style choices can possibly delay the onset of dementia, just like there are ways you can possibly decrease the chance of developing cancer. However, there are no known sure ways to completely prevent it, and at the end of the day, all you can do is hope.

roach They don't "know" where they are because their short-term memory has stopped working. You tell demented person that she/he's in care home for ppl with memory loss diseases and in 5mins he/she has forgot it all. They remember their early years/young adulthood way better than example last decade, that's why they keep talking about themselves and the surrounding world like it was 1948 not 2018.

Pretty much. Work your whole life, retire, try to enjoy it, then your brain goes, and all the money you've earned has to go to the facility that takes care of you. Once that runs out, the state pays for you. Very sad.

@@GoblinGirl Agree..

You wouldn't have the time to even notice this happening. It comes in stages and will be out of your control. If it happens just accept it and have some dignity instead of having a loved one find your lifeless body, it isn't worth it.

You worked with it for almost 8 years and you still can't spell it? Rly?

and your point is...really...? idiot

My point is no one works with an illness for 8 years without learning how to spell it...

Your not proving a point at all...all that matter is how I do my job & how well (which I’m pretty good at it) I’ve had no complaints about how I work...you wouldn’t last 5 minutes with your attitude

im on Monsta Munch side...i don't think you really have worked with DEMENTIA you would have to been trained and all sorts its not an easy job

idk its not common from what ive seen but ive seen some british people with teeth that look like meth mouth. Again not generalizing its a small minority but worse than any teeth ive seen in north america. Maybe its the sugar in the tea

I’m a Brit I found this comical 😂 nice banter what a cool guy