There&#x27;s a bit more to it than that. I had a relative die of cancer recently, and it was a relief in a way because if they cancer hadn&#x27;t got them, Alzheimer&#x27;s would - and it would have taken much longer and been even worse for everyone.<p>The loss of memory in Alzheimer&#x27;s simply means you stop remembering stuff. There&#x27;s no brain fog so far as I can tell. You just - stop remembering.<p>It has a lot of unexpected practical effects. You can&#x27;t give someone new stuff, because they won&#x27;t recognise it as their&#x27;s, or remember you gave it to them, and they&#x27;ll think they&#x27;ve lost the old stuff (or someone has stolen it - which is a common delusion.)<p>You have to be careful about medication and feeding because they won&#x27;t remember either. It becomes incredibly easy to overdose on meds by accident, or to forget to eat, or to eat too much.<p>Likewise shopping. When someone&#x27;s memory is so poor they can&#x27;t walk around a store and check things off a list, they need professional help.<p>After a while conversations become incredibly repetitive. In middle stage AS sufferers literally forget what you said at the start of a sentence before you&#x27;ve finished it. They forget they&#x27;ve already asked the same question six times in the last ten minutes - literally.<p>You can&#x27;t teach them anything new at all. So if you try to buy various memory aids or anything that needs a bit of thought or learning, they won&#x27;t find them useful.<p>Worst of all is the prospect of personality change. Some people become very agitated, abusive, and even violent - which can be a devastating surprise if they showed no signs of that before.<p>Eventually they stop recognising people or showing much awareness of their surroundings.<p>My relative actually became more settled and friendlier, which was a very good thing. But there were a couple of support meetings where we are all wondering which way things were going to go.<p>If they&#x27;d gone the other way, it would have been horrible - well, even more horrible - for everyone.