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In other words, it is not simply Alzheimer’s Disease that generates the inventiveness of storying like David’s. The reinvention, through storying, of the nursing home environment by those who are institutionalised is also due to the way this environment tends to intensify the confusion which is symptomatic of the disease. Anyone thrust suddenly and inexplicably into a new and very different environment will tend to ‘make things up’ as a way of assimilating to that environment. As Julian Barnes puts it in A History of the World in 10 Chapters: We don’t quite know why we’re here, or how long we shall be forced to stay.
I’d imagined that he would tell me all sorts of things about his life; it would be just us, so he’d feel freer to talk and I’d have more time to listen. But, although he did tell me interesting details of his life, my overall impression that day was of a man even more dislocated by my sudden interruption of what he’d just become used to. He was already disorientated by Alzheimer’s Disease and by having been institutionalised. Taking him out that ~ 29 day only caused him more confusion. He didn’t know w h e re he was.
Oliver Sacks cites the interesting case of a ‘Mrs O’C’ who suddenly, in later life, began to experience strange, musical, dreamlike seizures in which her mind and ears seemed to be filled with the Irish songs of her childhood. Eventually, after numerous tests, this was attributed to Mrs O’C’s chronic nostalgic need for a past home which, consciously, she had never been able to remember. This was because (it was eventually discovered) her father had ~ 33 died before she was born and her mother before she was five, after which she was sent from Ireland to America to live with an aunt.