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[quote=Anonymous]It is a common phenomenon with anyone with cognitive impairments such as dementia. It is called "false memories" - a clinically relevant memory distortion where a patient remembers an incorrect memory that they believe to be true or it is sometimes called confabulation where the person with dementia invents stories. My mother with moderate dementia will hear a story then combine it with something in her life and retell a new version of events that are bizarre. Last week is that she divorced her husband (he died 15 years ago and they never divorced) and he went on to have two other children (never happened). But she is able to add details so to someone who doesn't know her it sounds really believable. For example, adding the street he lived on, it was two other boys that he had, her mother in law really liked the new wife better, etc. [/quote]
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