People comfort themselves by saying that dementia is a benign way to fade away: that those who contract it have gone to a happy place in their minds and are unaware of their loss of human dignity. That’s a nice idea, but I worry that dementia feels more like the uncomfortable feeling you get when a word or a name is on the tip of your tongue and you can’t remember it. Imagine that, all the time, about everything. No wonder some of the patients in Dementiaville documentary series about the disease, looked stricken. Dementia brings personality changes and physical impairments, but most obviously it disrupts memory. Sufferers can’t remember their spouses’ names, or what they said two minutes ago, but they often have detailed recall of the distant past. In this first e