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When I did this I started to think of my mother as deeply forgetful, not as an Alzheimer’s patient. So I embarked on a mission to help my mother remember how to do things. For example, in her normal everyday life my mother would wake up, read the newspaper, and then do the crossword puzzle. So we started each and every day by doing just that. I would discuss the front page with her, look at the recipe page and ask her to read the ingredients of a recipe to me, and then eventually put the crossword puzzle in front of her if she didn’t do it herself. As a result, Dotty never forgot how to read.