Sassy grandpa with dementia has hilarious answers to everything: 'Good to see you, but go away'

Dementia, a condition that impacts memory, thinking, and cognitive abilities, often brings significant challenges to the lives of those affected and their families. However, it doesn’t mean losing one’s personality or the ability to enjoy life. A heartwarming example of this resilience is a grandpa with dementia who continues to live with a sharp sense of humor. His playful and candid conversations, caught on camera, were shared by Dementia Care Advocates on Instagram, delighting viewers with his wit and charm.

The video opens with the grandfather saying to a woman, "I don’t love you too much, but I do love you." When she jokingly asks, “What did I do wrong?” he quips, “I have other things to do.” His humor continues in another clip, where the woman asks if he loves her “to the moon and back.” He agrees, but when she adds, “and then back around again?” he replies bluntly, “No, once is once.”

The hilarity peaks when she asks, “Am I your favorite person ever?” His cheeky response, “Probably not,” leaves her laughing out loud. Later, when she questions, “Who do you love the most in this room?” he sassily answers, “Myself.”

In one of the last clips in the video she asks him, "Do you love me?" and grandpa replies, "No, go look in the mirror." The video has gone viral on Instagram with more than 1.3 million views and 185,000 likes. Instagram user @chill_house013 said, "Him saying all of it with a straight face." Another person @chaarlotte.oliviaa commented, "My dad has dementia and he's not able to speak much anymore. It's awfully sad. I'd given anything for him to tell me he loves me again." This adorable video makes us realize that people with dementia also require content support, fun and engagement just like any other human being.

In another adorable video, Elaine Lebar, a 95-year-old dementia patient, has gone viral on Tiktok after singing Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata," Debussy's "Clair de Lune," and Chopin's "Waltz in C Sharp Minor." Elaine Randi, Lebar's daughter, began uploading videos of her mother playing the piano after relocating her mother into a memory care facility near her home in Sagamore, Massachusetts. Randi said, "With the pandemic lockdown, all of a sudden, I couldn't visit her. I could only see her through a window. At one point, I just said, I need to put a face to these people who were locked up with no voice." 

One of their Tiktok videos, in which Lebar is shown performing the third movement of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata," has received 8.7 million views. Lebar started playing the piano at an early age. She graduated from the Brooklyn College of Music and earned a master's degree in music education at the University of Missouri, where she met her husband. Lebar continued to teach piano lessons, write music, and perform in concerts even after she had three children. 

This article originally appeared 1 year ago.