"He's much more loveable now," she says. Her father, now 86, used to be a man of few words and fewer smiles, someone that could be hard to relate to. But since his illness, he has become more childlike, and now laughs and smiles more.
「他比以前可愛，」袁茹鈺說，86 歲高齡的父親向來是個不苟言笑、一板一眼且不容易接近的人，失智之後卻像個孩子似的，有時候會笑得很開心。