Dr Sam Moxon - Unexpected Things Dementia Teaches us About Time

Dementia Researcher Blogs · May 26, 2026 · 4m

Dr Sam Moxon narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher.

We tend to picture dementia as a slow decline measured in months and years, tracked through cognitive scores and longitudinal data. Sam has watched several relatives live with the condition, and from a family seat it looks nothing like a line on a graph. In this blog he writes about his grandfather, who some days could hold a full conversation and other days had no idea who Sam was. Time stopped behaving normally. It folded back on itself when a question got asked again five minutes later, stretched out as his grandfather paused…