As we celebrate our veterans and their service, we must also take special care in how we recognize our veterans living with dementia. The course of Alzheimer’s and dementia will often take people on an emotional journey down memory lane. Resulting in people reliving past events as though they were current. Everyone is at risk for developing dementia and the effects are unique to each individual. Each of us has followed our own path in life bringing to our experience of dementia all the accomplishments, traumas, jobs, responsibilities and relationships we’ve gathered throughout our lives. Veterans living with dementia can begin to relive their service years, in addition to the feelings associated with that time. Depending on the events that
