Reflecting on the Links Between Literacy and Dementia

Each year as  href="https://www.worldalzmonth.org/"International Alzheimer’s Day  on September 21 (today) follows closely after  href="http://en.unesco.org/themes/literacy-all/literacy-day"International Literacy Day on September 8, I think about dementia and literacy. Specifically, I consider how people with cognitive impairments may—in addition to more widely publicized social deficits—also lose their ability to read.