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the onset of dementia and hard of hearing in common?
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<blockquote data-quote="Zeno Marx" data-source="post: 542725" data-attributes="member: 1211"><p>I have experience with Alzheimer's. A hereditary deal. Also worked with people with both developmental disabilities and/or mental illness. There's ALWAYS room for more empathy and patience, but I don't feel I'm too lacking in those areas.</p><p></p><p>I want to be clear: I'm not talking when a person is completely within the disease. I'm talking early on, and before, they no longer have coherent and lucid capacity. When they're still more outside the disease than within it.</p><p></p><p>As Stick said, this is more widespread than just with illness or aging. However, if aging includes the evaporation of self-awareness, the inability or unwillingness to apologize, and the feeling of entitlement to be a bull in a china shop as one is closer to the end than not...add all those things that are ugly about getting old.</p><p></p><p>Not to have an unreasonable expectation of people facing the end, but we all know it is coming. Every single one of us. To become antisocial, defensive/aggressive beings seems avoidable with some preparation and focus on self-awareness. As a culture, we're not so great at either preparation or self-awareness, but I can think of things far less worthy of our time and effort.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zeno Marx, post: 542725, member: 1211"] I have experience with Alzheimer's. A hereditary deal. Also worked with people with both developmental disabilities and/or mental illness. There's ALWAYS room for more empathy and patience, but I don't feel I'm too lacking in those areas. I want to be clear: I'm not talking when a person is completely within the disease. I'm talking early on, and before, they no longer have coherent and lucid capacity. When they're still more outside the disease than within it. As Stick said, this is more widespread than just with illness or aging. However, if aging includes the evaporation of self-awareness, the inability or unwillingness to apologize, and the feeling of entitlement to be a bull in a china shop as one is closer to the end than not...add all those things that are ugly about getting old. Not to have an unreasonable expectation of people facing the end, but we all know it is coming. Every single one of us. To become antisocial, defensive/aggressive beings seems avoidable with some preparation and focus on self-awareness. As a culture, we're not so great at either preparation or self-awareness, but I can think of things far less worthy of our time and effort. [/QUOTE]
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