Claudia Dressel

And you didn't have to think about how to adjust your life.

in these different ways that, like Brian said, are sometimes quite ridiculous.

It's almost as if there is this secret within our society that a lot of people will be affected by cognitive decline.

Nobody really acknowledges it.

Nobody prepares you for it.

But then when you find yourself in this situation, everybody says to you, well, if you just did X, Y, and Z, then it would be okay.

And everything rebels against the if only, because you know that that is not true.

It's not like if only one thing.

It's a whole rearrangement of your life that is happening.

When you think about it, it's almost like a murder has been committed.

And there is kind of no corpse.

And you are the one who is saying, can't anybody see just how incredibly fucked up this is?

Yes.

Yes.

It's been around since 1998.

I just don't understand.

The reason you haven't heard of it is because it comes from clinical psychology.

And sometimes the fields are so different that it takes a while for things that come from clinical psychology to go into this other context, which is the geropsychology context.

Imagine somebody has a really hard time knowing where things go in the kitchen.

That's a very typical one.