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What would happen if a buddhist monk got dementia?

Ive bene thinking about this a lot recently. If a person who devoted their entire lives to learning and practicing calmness, acceptance and being in the present got diagnosed with dementia, how would they act, what would they experience? 
From what I understand, when you have dementia, you forget who people are and who you are, however if, say, we had a monk experience this, would they be able to accept their situation and present or somehow understand using their already trained brains?
Or does dementia also affect mental faculties in a way that their reasoning would be altered too?
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Dementia is not always characterised by memory issues. For example, frontotemporal dementia generally affects inhibition. Your might be referring specifically to Alzheimer’s disease, which is the one most commonly associated with the term “dementia” and memory deficits. 

Either way, it would be interesting to see how frontotemporal degeneration affects one’s ability to maintain inner calm and meditate, as it were.

So really, it depends on the type of dementia and what faculties specifically are affected. Current best  practice in dementia is to try and keep people engaged with their regular lives as far as possible, which may be protective like continuing to meditate might be.