>Confusing relatives with each other is something that people with incipient memory failure do literally all the time An aunt of mine who had dementia near the

>Confusing relatives with each other is something that people with incipient memory failure do literally all the time An aunt of mine who had dementia near the end of her life was quite lucid in the sense that she could talk about family memories coherently, but she would substitute different people, sometimes of different generations and relationships, for the ones she was talking about. This Jeanne Calment thing reminds me a lot of the theories about why Shakespeare wasn't Shakespeare, and Mark Twain's contribution to the field. https://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org/is-shakespeare-dead/ https://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org/is-shakespeare-dead/ He was joking though, satirizing the conspiracy theorist's tone, I'm pretty sure.