{"id":860207,"date":"2026-09-25T13:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T13:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/860207\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T13:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T13:38:09","slug":"some-dementia-patients-grow-lucid-near-the-end-scientists-hope-its-a-clue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/860207\/","title":{"rendered":"Some dementia patients grow lucid near the end. Scientists hope it\u2019s a clue."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"JH7XX6KBNVB5ZDIGB4QEL55I5Y\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The day before her father died, one caregiver recalled he had his \u201cfinal lucid experience.\u201d <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"KTWNAN4IZBATVC6VL4UK5MV3AA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">\u201cI came over to his home, and he was rarely awake and never spoke at this time. But we talked and talked to him regardless,\u201d she said. \u201cI went over to his bed, he was awake, and I leaned into his view and said, \u2018Hi, Dad!\u2019 and clear as a bell he looked at me and said, \u2018Hi, Honey!\u2019 That\u2019s the last he spoke.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The day before her father died, one caregiver recalled he had his \u201cfinal lucid experience.\u201d \u201cI came over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-860207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}