Teaching Now Living: Part 10 –The Filter is Gone
Even early in the progression of Alzheimer’s disease the vocal filter may falter or even disappear. Recently after a church service had dispersed, an old friend of Ellie’s came up to her. She told Ellie that a mutual friend of theirs had passed away just yesterday. Ellie replied without hesitation, “Well she is dead, I don’t need to go to the funeral.” In the past, she would have never said anything like this and instead would’ve offered to help make food for the grieving fam