Typical "Dementia Freeze Moment". This is a "brain freeze" (not the ice cream one), where the dementia patient's thought processes simply stop. Almost like a reboot on a computer. I remember seeing this with my mother about a year before she died of Alzheimer's. She would be sitting at the nursing home in her room and jabbering away in a conversation with someone, someplace. Then all of a sudden her face would freeze and her body would become rigid, like a statue. Then after about 30 to 60 seconds, she would start talking again in an almost normal voice with me, as if nothing had happened. She was "back to normal" and would ask me "how's the weather today?" or something like that. Very disturbing and sad, considering that four or five years earlier she was still working and productive at age 55.
Typical "Dementia Freeze Moment". This is a "brain freeze" (not the ice cream one), where the dementia patient's thought processes simply stop. Almost like a reboot on a computer. I remember seeing this with my mother about a year before she died of Alzheimer's. She would be sitting at the nursing home in her room and jabbering away in a conversation with someone, someplace. Then all of a sudden her face would freeze and her body would become rigid, like a statue. Then after about 30 to 60 seconds, she would start talking again in an almost normal voice with me, as if nothing had happened. She was "back to normal" and would ask me "how's the weather today?" or something like that. Very disturbing and sad, considering that four or five years earlier she was still working and productive at age 55.
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