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Being bilingual can delay onset of dementia, but sometimes patients revert to their mother tongue, leaving them isolated. Shutterstock

Bilingualism and dementia: how some patients lose their second language and rediscover their first

David Murphy, University of Strathclyde ; Aedin Ni Loingsigh; Ingeborg Birnie, University of Strathclyde , and Thomas H Bak, University of Edinburgh

Why the lives of bilingual dementia patients can be transformed by finding carers who speak their native language.

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